The INE. cultural montage
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
Companies are forced to live in regimes of limited participation by oligarchic groups and authoritarian public officials like Córdova himself.
A few days ago, the former president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, interpreted the results of the Latinobarómetro survey in light of the role that the IFE/INE has played in the construction of the Transition Model via Competitive Elections.
In addition to hypocritical lamentations, the racist and authoritarian official commits the excess of attributing the social disenchantment of democracy with the Fourth Transformation.
The way in which sectors sympathetic to Lopezobradorism, as well as the holder of the federal executive power, are judged negatively, shows that Córdova could never affirm himself as a neutral arbiter of the electoral processes in Mexico, much less as the positive channel of Mexican democratic consolidation.
AUTHORITARIANISM
No society prefers authoritarianism, the cretinism of the former INE adviser and his intellectual chapel spreads.
Companies are forced to live in regimes of limited participation by oligarchic groups and authoritarian public officials like Córdova himself.
Throughout its history, the IFE/INE forgot its commitment to civic culture and democratic education. It is not only that the people have the government they deserve, as Lorenzo Córdova wants to say; is that the INE never did anything to control the voracity and authoritarianism of the political class, mainly the neoliberals, whose most extraordinary case was the 2006 elections under the immoral arbitration of Luis Carlos Ugalde.
DISENCHANTMENT
The disenchantment with democracy is not only the responsibility of society but, mainly, of organizations such as the INE -on a national and local scale- and of electoral officials such as Ugalde and Córdova, exalted practitioners of bureaucratic patrimonialism and electoral concessions.
The political transition via competitive elections was only a cultural assembly headed by intellectuals at the service of the hegemonic historical bloc that never materialized participatory democracy, fair arbitration and authentic recognition of popular preferences.
The INE and the OPLEs are monuments of bureaucratic patrimonialism and political science fallacy. Ugalde, Córdova and company represent snobbery and intellectual imposture to recognize reality.
The current political circumstance not only demonstrates the excessive cost of electoral councilors and organizations, as well as their uselessness.
The current context has triggered a democratic deepening that has surpassed the coyote of the electoral official and generated a political agonism thanks to which it has been possible to recognize the real values of the multiple political tendencies and their factions; mainly the racist, pro-Yankee and classist right.
The INE, under the direction of Córdova Vianello, never respected the will of the Mexican people who attended the 2018 elections. Like Ugalde, it entered Mexican history on the side of discredit, and it will stay there.
The cultural montage of the electoral organizations is so untenable that even the Broad Front abandoned it.
Mexican democracy is not the liberal capitalist democracy as anyone with a minimum of comparative politics knows, and the Latinobarómetro should adjust its measurement instruments to other indices and variables.