Woldenberg, Presidential?
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
The march in defense of the INE generated varied perspectives on the behavior of civil society and the conservative opposition in Mexico. One of the points that stands out is the proposal to place José Woldenberg as one of the candidates to lead the opposition candidacy for the presidency of the republic. In addition to the many significant errors that the march for the INE generated, this idea of launching Woldenberg for the conquest of the federal government is a sign of the bias of the PRIANRD alliance and its affection for the Americanist referees.
During the final stage of the PRI's hegemony, the IFE developed more than a citizenization process, a stage of withdrawing control of the elections from the federal government. However, if one is to be honest, this reality never happened. The different governments, of the different parties, of the different administrative levels, get into the kitchen of the elections and nothing can be done to prevent it. Citizenship was a mask, cotton candy full of poison, to hide the truth, that the political and oligarchic class does not allow society to participate in the free election of its rulers. Even the ill-gotten citizenship was followed by the prosecution process that -as every Mexican knows- only benefits lawyers. In this last sense, for example, if legal intermediation has been more successful as an alternative mechanism to solve public and private legal problems, we already understand what judicialization means: corruption.
José Woldenberg did what he could, which was very little. It is true that independent elections were achieved that allowed alternation. But it didn't help much, democratic quality in Mexico never existed and the elections only allowed PRI members of all political parties to govern us.
Woldenberg's departure from the IFE ended up revealing a stinking and corrupt institution where the moches for the elections were arranged. It is not Woldenberg's fault but those who followed.
So, then, what could Woldenberg do now? Any. As he did in the nineties. Gradualist changes that never achieved something positive for Mexican democracy, there are the indicators of the three decades of democratic transition via competitive elections. The Mexican transition lacked democrats and the IFE/INE is the one that needs it the most.
Worse still, according to Maurice Duverger's elitist theory regarding Real and Apparent Bosses. The march in defense of the INE revealed the inner circle that rules over Woldenberg, you don't need to be a great political scientist to understand that they are using, corrupting, the figure of Woldenberg to implement his disgusting interests. Woldenberg in the presidency would be a puppet of the worst Mexicans.