Mexico.- The triumph at the ballot box of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), began to gesay with the student movement of 1968, grew in the election of 1988 and detoned on July 1, 2018, in the elections that would lead him to the presidency of Mexico.That day began with ranks in July 1, 2018, in the elections that would lead him to the Presidency of Mexico.That day began with ranks in the polling stations that gave a clue to what might happen on the day, which proved historic with more than 56 million voters and closed with the other contenders acknowledging their defeat.
In nine hours of voting, decades of struggle were summed up by López Obrador, who under the name of his coalition Juntos Hook historia, composed of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and the Labor and Social Meeting parties, anticipated the result. Help. Click on the Google News star and follow usThe crushing victory of López Obrador, with 53% of the votes, followed his tours around the country, his anti-corruption speech, his outstanding presence on social networks and his first place in virtually all Surveys.
This, together with his successful presentations in the debates between candidates and opponents in low hours, strengthened his candidacy and gave him the triumph. Just on July 9, 2014, the Mexican election authority granted Morena its registration as a national political party, created by López Obrador following his departure from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in 2012.With two previous attempts to reach the Presidency with the PRD, the 2018 was cloding as the last of López Obrador.Su management as head of government of Mexico City between 2000 and 2005 prompted him to seek in 2006 the first political position of the country, which in the end lost to Felipe Calderón, of the National Action Party (PAN) , by 0.56% of the vote.” The 2006 defeat did not bend him and he re-presented in 2012 (when he lost to Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party-PRI), and it was not until 2018 that he convinced and not only those who pushed him,” he told Efe Alvaro Arreola of the Institute of Social Research (IIS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Arreola believes that one of The virtues of López Obrador is to have had the strength to build a party. With almost five years of life, Morena already took control of the federal Congress and also most of the federal entities as far as their legislative power is concerned.
The 12 years between the first and third attempts were taken advantage of by the current representative and, as presumed, he devoted himself to visiting all the municipalities of the country, some 2,458, to find problems and collect lawsuits and protests.” It’s almost impossible for anyone to do what López Obrador did in the last 20 years. He is a man who managed to attract the masses and at these levels there is no other in Mexico,” Arreola said.For the UNAM academic, López Obrador’s victory could not be understood without considering at least two historically important moments: the student movement of 1968 and the presidential election of 1988.La 1968 student massacre “is a wound that remains and reopened in 1971 in the face of another Mexican government onslaught against student movements, and the 1988 election results marked a new defeater,” he says. It also cites the exhaustion of a political system in which the PRI won at all costs and which reached a crisis in the 1988 elections, officially won by Carlos Salinas but with a huge suspicion of fraud. López Obrador, then of the PRI, had joined a stream of the party that opposed Salinas’s candidacy.The losing candidate at the time was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, postulated by the National Democratic Front, a coalition that evolved in the PRD, to which López Obrador joined in 1989.
For Arreola, the three decades since these elections are marked by mobilizations to open up democratic spaces. “Society didn’t get tired and the political system did and it came unless,” the professor said. The PRI eventually lost the presidency in 2000 to Vicente Fox of the PAN, who was succeeded by his co-religionist Calderón. But the once hegemonic party regained the presidential chair in 2012 with Peña Nieto.No nevertheless, according to Arreola, “the society saw exhausted that model of the regime of the Mexican political system, in which two or three corrupt traditional forces were leveraged and allied only to conquer spaces such as the PRI, the PAN and in 2012 they were joined by the PRD.” These parties “never understood that the rejection of corruption, fraud and all corporate controls was serious and that society demanded change; that was his great denial.” It was then, according to the specialist, “that society matured and realized that the supposedly democratic and representation model that was sold to us was exhausted, so much so that traditional parties are almost on the verge of disappearing.” Society didn’t see if this man had a political party. He is a character who remained loyal to his proposal, never adulterated, who was always foolish and who with a very simple speech managed to convince 30 million Mexicans,” he concluded.
