translated from Spanish: ‘Coup de Estado’ to Graciela Dominguez

The bomb went off! It was only a matter of time before Morena’s bench in the Sinaloa Congress was revealed and divided. Yesterday it was fractured in two groups, we had advanced it at the beginning of the year and a few months ago, it was imminent. Yesterday morning the internal crisis snifted and something resembling a “Valkyrie Operation” was launched; within the brunette parliamentary fraction, a group of opponents of Graciela Dominguez Nava gave her an albazo and dismissed her. In a first document they confirmed the departure of Graciela Domínguez Nava and announced that Cecilia Covarrubias González assumed the coordination of the bench, this with the backing of 13 deputies, against nine who did not sign. The majority who supported Cecilia Covarrubias and gave her their signature were: Francisca Abelló, Juan Ramón Torres, Pedro Villegas Lobo, Cecilia Covarrubias, Gildardo Leyva, Rosa Inés López, Apolinar García, Victoria Sánchez, Alma Rosa Garzón, Mariana Rojo, José Antonio Crespo, Florentino Vizcarra, Adriana Zárate and Jesús Palestino.Among those who did not sign, and who evidently supported Graciela Dominguez, highlight Horacio Lora, Yeraldine Bonilla, Emilia Guerra, Ocadio García, Rosario Romero, Marco Zazueta and Flora Isela Miranda.Up there a second official document signed and published by Cecilia Covarrubias reported that, according to law, by majority decision of the Parliamentary Group of Morena she had been appointed coordinator from today (yesterday) and until the end of the Legislature. At that time Covarrubias was the coordinator of Morena and had been dismissed Graciela Dominguez, (at least on paper so it was). It could be described as a coup d’état, in its dimensions, of course. The political operation of the group of Graciela Domínguez did not cease, calls to the leadership in Mexico, there was work of convincing the key deputies, they tell us that they would even have asked favors to the Third Floor of Government of the State. They burned the ships. It was not for nothing, the ship led by Graciela Dominguez had received a “torpedo” and was sinking, until at last came a third document in which the deputies Alma Rosa Garzón, Florentino Vizcarra, José Crespo and Francisca Abelló backtracked and left without effect the signing of the first office that sought to appoint Cecilia Covarrubias as the new coordinator of the parliamentary group. In addition, they added in the document that the full trust of The Member Graciela Dominguez to continue in the office that she was granted since the beginning of the legislature. So far, legally, Graciela Dominguez continues to be the coordinator of the Morena bench, but the hole is huge, is in the worst crisis of the legislature and is definitely no longer in a position to continue because she lost the leadership and almost half of his party’s deputies. In these cases the political exit, and the healthiest, is that they choose a third party, someone more neutral, of balance and unity, the two parties that were in contention come out. Otherwise, the internal crisis will continue. This scenario is definitely the most congruent, because there is no moral authority or leadership anymore, and the damage they did to Morena’s bench is irreversible. Add to this the commitments and moorings that had to be made, probably very expensive. In time they’ll know each other. Political memory. “I have understood that there are two truths, one of which should never be said”: Albert Camus.



Original source in Spanish