The Priista Smurf. National Action and the story of a party defeated by the victory
By Diego Velazquez
Just see the light a work that has the best analysis of the political right in Mexico. The book, "When Mexico finished to fuck it? The Legacy of the National Action Party "coordinated by academic Cesar Cansino and German Molina, published by Editorial Mariel, brings together a group of analysts to interpret the experience of the National Action Party during the period of the PRI democradura well as in the transition. The work is the product of V International Symposium of Mexican Studies called "Between blue and good night" held in October 2014 at the Institute of Legal Sciences and the Institute of the Government of the BUAP Sciences. Researchers participated in this event as Victor Reynoso, Manuel Diaz Cid, Carlos Ramirez, Alberto Aziz Nassif, Juan José Rodríguez Prats and Jose Antonio Crespo, plus other good scholars, whose diagnoses were incorporated into the whole issue.
What happened to the PAN? National Action was transformed during the latter part of the twentieth century and change from original identity of Thomistic humanism to become a copy similar to the PRI. From the salinato until calderonismo, PAN development a marriage with the PRI that returned a ghost his old humanism. It is true that the same can be said of the experience he had the Party of the Democratic Revolution. And even more amazing, the PRI pedigree of the right and left has made pragmatic multiparty alliances meet in state and national level only to an exchange of brawls PRI in power. Mexican voting for the PRI or expriista, wherever it is to lose.
The need to survive in a democratic environment prompted the PAN to import of PRI tables and the road ended assimilating their genetic information. Although National Action tried to hide his callista roots for many decades, this ended up staying and coming up with full force when the PRI defectors began to arrive.
Economic, religious, political and electoral reforms and public safety; They are those that allowed the empowerment of the PAN like buddy of PRI since salinismo from today. Hence, as stated by Caesar Cansino (2014), National Action has the merit of having destroyed so supersonic Mexico compared to what made the PRI. When speaking of opacity, corruption, madness, repression and violation of human rights; the student surpassed the teacher.
After leaving the presidency of the republic, the PAN not returned to its origins; on the contrary, during the current administration it has created a diaspora of traditional PAN members that will remain wide until anoint their candidate for the presidency of the republic in 2018 to empty all their traditional and religious identity. Analysis such as this book are important because they give birth and prevent political naivete that, say people like Alvaro Obregon, is the worst social sin.
When expriistas boast local elections have generated alternations and no return to the past, the present document texts as evidence of their total lie. In Mexico today govern PRIs of all political parties and that, not you can call regime change and perhaps even transition.
Analysts agree with the idea of Cansino stating that the damage done by the PAN to Mexico is immeasurable. They will be centuries of work and reflection to promote a real change in the country. The election results on Sunday, claiming the analysis of works like this. If the acclaimed "return PAN" its true, then is urgent see correctly that of the seven governorships observed four are left to expriistas (and then, the scene of Manlio Fabio Beltrones is true PRI 9 and PAN 3) is strictly observed, it is clear one thing : the only formal and party worthy of the name remains the Institutional Revolutionary party. In most of the states where elections were held, a large part of the candidates came from the PRI. By now, 17 years after the alternation of the presidency of the republic, the fact that the PRI remains the matrix from which most of the candidates running political parties is an embarrassment to the institutional capacity of same.
The call is more urgent attention to parties that try to be different from the PRI, How is it possible that in all these years have not trained the necessary leaders to posit a genuine platform and candidates? When the president Felipe Calderón declared that every Mexican is a PRI before proven otherwise, described the culture and level of politics in our country. Why it has failed democratic consolidation? Why the PRI did not die? Because they never left the power, because they spread everywhere and the opposition has never been able to do your own homework.
The fact that candidates mostly have a membership implies that the PRI regime change has not occurred; on the contrary, the suckerfish and bad habits remain. This is the reason that democracy generally of poor quality and, in turn, phenomena like clientelism, corporatism and the chiefdom are updated. A significant case is Puebla, whose alternation has been rejected in recent years by the Democratic Development Index. Puebla is in the level of Guerrero, Michoacan and Mexico State. If the country is prescribed "medicine Puebla" then it will be necessary to prepare for further indebtedness, poverty, corruption and authoritarianism You really someone thinks that Miguel Angel Yunes, José Rosas Aispuro, Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez and Tony Gali will no longer rule as PRI?
The political turncoat is a constant in Mexican elections at all levels. In fact, the worst is yet to come when all candidates are PRI members. That is, painted and scenarios, candidates from all parties in the country will be PRIs and expriistas. What will happen to the former members of the opposition-although it is with the PRI, is that many characters will leave for independent candidates. This is one of the safest ways, for example, Margarita Zavala who no longer has a place in the PAN.
It has been discussed to the end if each society has the government it deserves. In recent days disapproval of the president of the republic has reached unprecedented levels. The case of coexistence societies led the presidential figure to end background in the preferences of the right and extreme right to focus on the figure of Enrique Peña Nieto the most radical adjectives according to the manual Civita Catolica. What is surprising is that, despite such discontent with the PRI and political figures, people continue to support expriistas. And then we get angry when you notice that the behavior never changed. What was not obvious? It is not given, nor will, in most expriistas the phenomenon of historical rupture; On the contrary, their behavior persists in a restoration of the authoritarian PRI. In those states where there was political change but the figure proved a winning expriista, it can be seen that there has been no change, no increase in the level of democratic quality and even authoritarianism has risen even more.
When studying the party system in Mexico during the time of Hegemonic Party, it said the opposition parties were appendages of the PRI. The left and the right were the institutes more bother with this categorization given the militant history that everyone has. However, reality has come to deny this memorable past. They are not appendages of the PRI, are branches, agencies, and putative biological children, legitimate and illegitimate offspring.
More serious is that Mexican voters continue to support the PRI members of all political parties believing that someday will be the historical rupture. The PRI is inmorible, nor can it be destroyed from within, nor can it be changed and the PRI only win him the PRI (disguised as PAN, PRD or Morena). Or perhaps, the Mexican voter abstentionism still hoping that one day there real alternatives in Mexican politics.
If Rafael Moreno Valle, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Miguel Ángel Mancera manage to take the presidency of the republic to the group of Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI is the symbolic representation of the alternation.
Daniel Cosio Villegas and Roderic Ai Camp -two notable political scientists specialists in the Mexican system took for granted that political parties exist in Mexico, our life is reduced to power factions, cliques, groups and elites, all PRI and almost no difference in handling corruption when in power.
In Mexico there is a perpetual crisis of political parties, it just happens that society does not know how to put aside the institute callista cardenista participation. The PRI remains the Sun in our galaxy and political culture. Other ideologies or political movements end up giving space or co-opted against their overwhelming pragmatism.
Mexico Will it change? Someday the PRI will be finalized? In the short term the answer is no. José Francisco Ruiz Massieu and Manuel Camacho Solis saw inmodificable the regime and only bet on the arrival of new politicians, increasingly pragmatic groups, but always play to change without rupture,ie no change to the political system.
At some point the PRI thought of approaching social democracy and the model of the Netherlands where there are dominant parties in a bizarro world are democratic and honest PRI. Now, when corruption afflicts society and the inability of the political group in power it is immeasurable, it is necessary to consider the democratic corporatist model. The chances of Mexico as a liberal democracy are slim; if not nonexistent. No alternation at any level of government; the PRI continues to win everything, whether tricolor, blue, yellow, green, pink, citizen and, now, even rainbow. Pablo Gonzalez Casanova has outlined the idea of democratizing our corporatism for many years, it is a more logical view that belief considering the change via elections. Also, the Catholic Church -in before the Mexican Revolution moments he considered the creation of the National Catholic Party, which may have been one of the most important mass parties of Latin America.
Neither elections nor the parties constitute the path of political change in Mexico, before other groups armed struggle or foreign intervention arise, perhaps necessary return to the subject of corporatism and rewrite the history of the Mexican political system. Otherwise, the PRI elites and counterelites in PRI-isation process maintain a factionalism that increasingly deinstitutionalizes the country, impoverishes, steals and murders. If the effort and the lives of those who fought for democracy itself, then Mexico is lost and disappears is not valued. The return of the PRI nor the PAN bode well. And it is that the PRI always be the same. This is the real risk if the extreme right came to power in Mexico in the next presidential elections.
Cesar Cansino (2014) Mexico in ruins. PAN balances in power. Ed. BUAP-Juan Pablos. Mexico
Cesar Cansino and Germán Molina (2016) When Mexico finished to fuck it? The Legacy of the National Action Party. Ed. Mariel. Mexico
[1] The adjective was created by the independent candidate Ana Teresa Aranda referring to the PAN in the race for the governorship of Puebla
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