Morena is built as a Dominant Party

 Morena is built as a Dominant Party

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

It seems increasingly clear that the Mexican electoral system has entered a terminal crisis. The systematic violation of procedural rules by most political actors is done with the consent of the electoral authority and this is a consequence of the performance of the party system. Participation in politics is contained in the authoritarian dimension of personalism, particularly of executive and factual powers, which deinstitutionalizes parties and decompensates electoral procedures.

Demographic preferences favor Morena's electoral proposals; However, the legislative project of the Fourth Transformation has led to the ruling party including alliances of all kinds at the regional level to achieve a majority that will be overwhelming against the opposition. Partisan migration and political transfuguism have overwhelmed Morena. However, the inclusion that is increasing in Morena for greater electoral profitability determines that the party loses dynamism, leadership and principles. The power that Morena achieves and the inability of its political cadres is terrifying.

The speed that the inclusion of new members and candidates for the Fourth Transformation has taken has blurred the progressivism and Justicialism that was understood as the flag of the Morenoist left; Now, we talk about a humanism that implies everything and nothing. Like the PRI, Morena is becoming a political wild card that orients itself according to the context.

The problem of the new Official Party is the formation of its nomenklatura. It is a fact that even though presidentialism is providential in the direction of the Mexican political system, it was configured as a mortal god that only lasts six years and is subject to an inner circle that truly influences power. This political class became dark and unpunished, until it ignored the principles that gave rise to the party. Will the same thing happen with Morena? How long will it take?

Morena is recruiting political cadres that indicate difficult times ahead, few elements have anything to do with the characteristics that allowed López Obrador to come to power in 2018. Better said, the Morena of 2024 is at the antipodes. If all other parties have failed to control the chiefdoms and informal leaderships, what is the reason why Morena considers otherwise?

The bosses of Mexican politics have put an end to the PRI, PAN, PRD, PVEM and now Morena; There is no doubt that they are going to destroy Mexico like Pedro Páramo did with Comala. A major political reform is necessary that regenerates political participation and institutionalizes the ways of accessing public office.

You look so much like the PRI, …

 You look so much like the PRI, …

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

These days the theoretical debate regarding the political parties -hegemonic and dominant- has been recovered for the Mexican case. On the one hand, the electoral conquest of various entities and spaces by Morena forces us to reflect on whether said social movement is not the Fourth Transformation of the Regime of the Mexican Revolution (PNR-PRM-PRI); but no, although the National Regeneration Movement retakes the structure of cacique corporatist domination that the PRI institutionalized, its challenge is precisely institutionalization. At this point, Morena is more related to the ugly cousin of the PRI: the PRD, which succumbs for not developing the ability to overcome caudillismo. Morena is a dominant party, but not hegemonic and presents mechanical contradictions by using the old PRI irons and the progressivism of Mexican postmodernity in an antinomic way.

The other half of the extinct hegemonic party, the PRIANRD, suffers from poisoning by mixing antagonistic institutional designs that do not find an effective way of projection. National Action has used corporatism to win elections; however, he rejects it for an erratic interpretation of the concept of excellent minorities. Technocracy is not traditionalism and, due to the equivocal medieval Catholic nationalism, it would be better for the PAN to assume its Francoist condition and stop putting into practice a liberalism that is alien to it. Rafael Moreno Valle, the avilacamachista governor of Puebla, sought to implant the logic of cacique corporatism in the Blue and Whites and failed. Now, AN is the axis of the opposition coalition to MORENA and does not have the capacity to find excellent minorities, cadres, notable personalities, who have the power to confront López Obrador. On the contrary, the PAN drags the bundles of the PRI and PRD that end up contaminating and perverting, even more, the courteous civilian ethics of integral humanism.

The elections of 2024 begin to resemble those of 1976. Unless MORENA decides to confront itself, the opposition simply vanishes, the structure of PRI domination remains: the cacique corporatism that, faced with the magnetism of López Obrador, migrates to MORENA without the slightest shame. The PRI can only be defeated by the PRI, said Daniel Cosío Villegas, and the PRI are overflowing towards Morena everywhere and in every way. Will Morena only be defeated by Morena?

The culture of PRI domination remains firm after all, the cacique corporatism does not lose and is disciplined in the face of the power that the president of the republic accumulates, however, compliance with him will change towards the end of the six-year term. Caciques and corporations are immovable stones in the Mexican political system, but they move under their particularisms according to the chronology of the constitutional mandates.

The state of the party system in Mexico is a tragedy, Morena is not a political party and the famous electoral referee has turned out to be the best ally of conservative populism and revolutionary nationalism. Hopefully a future Jesús Reyes Heroles will have mercy on the remaining ideological gatherings to grant them crumbs that allow them to feed themselves; although there are always the United States and the Miami worms to refinance a counterpower or a probable coup.