“Nothing happens, there is nothing to fear,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said when questioned about the announcement of an opposition bloc made up of the PRI, PAN and PRD parties.
Yesterday, the leaders of the three parties formalized the Va Por México legislative coalition to go in alliance in the next legislature of the Chamber of Deputies and be a counterweight to Morena.
In the June elections will be at stake the current absolute majority (half plus one) with which Morena has in the Chamber of Deputies, and that allows him to pass ordinary laws.
López Obrador requires a qualified majority (two-thirds) to pass possible constitutional reforms that would expand the role of the state in strategic sectors such as energy and hydrocarbons
Marko Cortés, leader of the PAN, warned that the opposition will resume the powers that the Chamber of Deputies ceded to López Obrador in the 64th Legislature.
In this regard, the representative assured that dirty wars do not work because “the people of Mexico are very conscious, awake, stoked, not capable of manipulation, that was left behind”.
“Black campaigns, dirty wars, manipulation, with that are going to be imposed, no longer, you can’t put new wine in old bottles, it’s another reality,” he said.
The representative recommended that opposition party leaders avoid the use of public resources to hire advertising companies focused on developing negative campaigns against the federal government.
“The only thing I regret is that money is spent dumb, because all these companies charge a lot, but they don’t work. I shouldn’t even be giving advice or advising, but in one of those, it’s even public money.”
“I take this opportunity to remind you that you should not be giving yourself crumbs to get votes, that this is undemocratic, besides it is a crime, to tell all people to help, to report.”
The decalogue of Va Por México stresses that constitutional control will be resumed in the definition of the budget and in the control of public expenditure, restore the balance between the Powers of the Union, as well as respect autonomous bodies, restore eliminated social programmes and regain freedom of expression.
In the document they signed, the leaders Marko Cortés (PAN), Jesús Zambrano (PRD) and Alejandro Moreno (PRI) emphasized: “History has taught us the negative consequences of the concentration of all power in a single individual, so we must not repeat it, absolute power corrupts us absolutely”.
“Coalitions can be valuable tools for transitioning from a simple majority democracy to a consensus democracy. The country cannot be left into the hands of one man’s voluntarism,” they said.
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