Although the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) had a setback in Mexico City, where it lost at least nine of 15 mayors, at the national level it obtained 11 from 15 governorships. Nothing minor. However, in the Chamber of Deputies he lost 47 seats , but still kept the majority to control the budget. Being positive and with a little support from other parties, the qualified majority could be given to make changes to the Constitution, if necessary.
So who lost or who won?
While each party or media can give a positive or negative reading to the results of June 6, the reality is that if all the methods, forms and money that the “ opposition ”to the government in turn used, then we can say that the failure was for the Coalition Va por México.
We must not forget that the main objective of the opposition was to take control of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies. The members of said opposition wanted to be a counterweight in the decisions emanating from that Chamber, but mainly they wanted the government budget to be negotiated with them. They did not want it to be approved with all the social programs for the most needy people. They wanted to be included in the support trusts, which were millionaire budgets that they previously managed. That was his bad habit.
“Either we leave him without the Chamber or he leaves us without a country,” said businessman Claudio X. González, one of the most staunch opponents of López Obrador, a few weeks ago on Twitter and then in a video that was heard on the networks. Surely Mr. X. González was referring to his exclusive privileged sector when he said “he leaves us without a country” … from which to continue squeezing.
We say that it is a failure because they did not reach their objective, to Despite joining the three opposition parties (PRI, PAN, PRD), the powers that be, the economic power, Coparmex, the Business Accounting Council, as well as autonomous bodies such as the INE, the United States Embassy, the OAS. That is, all the coalitions of their political and economic powers, but even so they could not achieve their mission.
If this dirty war had been in another time, before social networks, surely would have been successful. But the president’s morning lectures, as well as other journalists and communicators on social networks, made a counterweight. They were able to verify that the media – radio, TV and print media – no longer have the weight, or the effect of before, although they comment or publish articles on a daily basis with the intention of hitting the president. Yes, to the president, because his objective is not to promote a responsible opposition with his union members, followers and with the Mexican political system, which has its own rules, but to lynch publicly and in the media every day the person who exceeded them in absolutely every fronts, but above all in the massive support on the part of the popular sectors that the political and economic elites denigrated, destroyed and discriminated against for decades, without giving them the opportunity to aspire to a better future.
Not many years ago they were able to build and sell the image of a president; even millions of people voted for him: Enrique Peña Nieto. Today that is no longer possible. The childish and ridiculous attempts of Ricardo Anaya, of the PAN, trying to take “village baths” to discover the black thread of poverty resulted in a boomerang effect that left him on the political canvas for his lack of credibility and honesty. In fact, his own personal and political hypocrisy was his number one enemy. It will be difficult for him to revive politically. The PAN, the Mexican right, will have to search among other more credible and less ridiculous options.
Fortunately with programs on YouTube such as La Octava, Julio Astillero, Los Periodistas, Sin Censura, Noticiero en Networks, Windbreaker, Citizen Mailbox, and communicators such as El Chapucero, News Juca, Meme Yamel, El Nopal Times, El Gato Político, El Charro Político, among Many others, the audiences are now more diverse and the message of the traditional or corporate media no longer has the same weight.
To give an example, Joaquín López Dóriga, one of the presenters of Televisa news with the most influence in decades in Mexico, today from its YouTube channel it addresses an audience of 220, 000 followers. One of his last shows had 43 a thousand views; While Vicente Serrano with 1.6 million followers on his Sin Censura channel, in three hours one of his videos had already had more than 106 thousand views.
Differences like this example are many and that makes people no longer just stick with the message of the big communication monopolies. Now they have options and plurality in politics brings a bit of democracy to societies.
It was with this segment of independent journalists and communicators that possibly the Va por México coalition did not count, since that constant and incessant pounding against the president – attacks that began even before he took control of his mandate – has been counteracted thanks to these independent journalists and communicators, who are always, although it is hard to believe, more objective than corporate channels.
Considering all this, we call failure the coup that this group of businessmen wanted to forge, but that in the end they could not achieve, or even avoid a simple minority of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies.
At the end of this column, Senator Gustavo Madero Muñoz, former president of the PAN, had already said in an opinion that it is a “self-deception” to think that he won over Morena.
Agustín Durán is editor of Metr or Real America News de Los Angeles.