Plurinominals and unfulfilled promises of the electoral system
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
The debate around the disproportionality that can be generated from the distribution of plurinominal legislators is meaningless from a retrospective and fair look, the capital sins are the possession of all and only after the conjuncture does critical action make sense. Mexicans voted in one sense and this must be respected; although it is not to the liking of electoral specialists inclined to the liberal democratic model.
For many years, intense academic debates and conscientious studies regarding the Mexican electoral system were never taken into account. It is enough to remember the ideas of Manlio Beltrones regarding Giovanni Sartori's proposal and the second electoral round. Were the parties aware of the studies produced by the Mexican Society of Electoral Studies? Did they include academia in their political proposals? Have the PRIANRD read different studies on electoral indicators? So, why did they never change the electoral system in time? What are they complaining about?
They all act according to their political capital and seek to remain in power. Plan C, as did the National Action Party and the Hegemonic PRI at the time, proposes the disappearance of plurinominals. Perhaps the disappearance of peanuts and pilones is better so that presidentialism works better. The brilliant minds of Mexican political science were never able to convince legislators to design an electoral system appropriate to the correlation of political forces and system of government, nor did they contribute to changing Mexican political culture and, less, the patrimonialism of the ruling class. We have what we want, we are what we did. It is more dignified that the opposition to Morena let Sheinbaum Pardo govern and do well
If the group that makes up the 4T coalition is an electoral alliance or different political parties, it has nothing to do with Mexican democracy. The distribution of seats must be based on the mechanical function of the operational text and there is nothing else to discuss. An electoral system that has blocked Mexican democratization for more than three decades will soon disappear, so each of the parties will get what it works for in social correspondence.
The opposition to Morena cannot seek in electoral judicialization what it did not obtain at the polls. With all the risks that a majority election like the one in 2024 implies, it greatly benefited Morena. The anti-democratic thing is to oppose this trend, even if the people are wrong; things are as they are, reason has never defeated reality. The opposition and the red circle that seeks to stop the electoral expression of Mexicans, still do not understand the message of 2018 and 2024, they keep their distance from society and close themselves off to the change of era that the world is experiencing.
The message of the elections requests approximation of the political class to society, government attention, public policies and respect. Citizens do not ask for Chinese accounts. Anti-Lopez Obradorism had a six-year term to compete, palm to palm, against the Fourth Transformation. They squandered all their opportunities and remain far from the majority, stuck in a political vision that Mexican political culture rejects in a crude and open way.
Morena won almost everything, the opposition has failed in almost everything; it is time to reinvent itself.