translated from Spanish: Authoritarian ansia – The Opinion of Miguel Angel Pérez Pompa

At the beginning of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and even sometimes during the various political campaigns underpinned by the president, the opposition and his media have accused him of being an anti-democrat, of polarizing the feelings of Mexicans, of generating a resentment in the social base that sympathizes with him and with his movement against the establishment , of the historical dominant group of the country’s politics and economy. They accused as they now accuse of a polarizing spirit of the president that can only result in authoritarianism, in fact they only project on their own authoritarian craving.
A vehement or exacerbated desire for something that can be catalogued or defined as an authoritarian act by Andrés Manuel López Obrador to happen shows the anxiety of the political opposition to rise up to the triumph of miseries, yet he only projects what are his true intentions and actions of his representatives.
Since the presidential campaign, various analysts and political specialists were threatening with great concern a risk of authoritarianism on the part of AMLO, to say in a few words that it would eliminate the division of powers, which would trample on the Mexican political system that has been built for decades, which would mark an editorial line in almost all the media without penalty of serious consequences , that he would kick the entrepreneurs who will not support his projects and who would use the National Guard as an instrument of repression of the people.

To tell the truth, all of the above has been a lie in all possible cases; the autonomy of the Judiciary of the Federation has been respected even though at first there was strong resistance against eliminating privileges, as has that of the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the Autonomous Agencies, even if they are not overlooked the criticisms of their defense of their interests, the various initiatives of the federal executive who arrive at the Congress of the Union are debated and approved not by an overwhelming majority of Morena , but by most of the parties represented in the chambers, and finally the deployment of the National Guard to collaborate in different activities to the security one only confirms that those speculations made about the possible authoritarianism of AMLO were and are only projections of the same political opposition, since they would undoubtedly act and act in that way.
In this way, it is no wonder that it is and has been the political opposition that behaves authoritarianly; repression of citizens in the states ruled by the northeast bloc for failing to follow its constringent measures and Giovanni’s regrettable assassination in Jalisco demonstrate the above, the acquisition of more debt for its entities going over the parliamentary fractions of its congresses, the indiscriminate recruitment of social communication in the local and national media, as well as those emboldened against the President of the Republic confirm the yearning for authoritarianism , wanting to relive the ghosts of diaz-ordacism and confirm his theory of polarization.
In their authoritarian desire, the opposition vehemently wishes that the 4th TS Government acted as they would or do; suppressing and subduing the discordant voices with their politics so that they can rise up with the triumph of miseries and recover what they yearn for lost, the privileges of public power in the hands of a few.
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