“There is no reform yet,” says Sheinbaum in the face of criticism
This Monday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum said one of those phrases that make you raise an eyebrow. As the opposition mobilizes against her electoral reform proposal, she recalled a small detail: the proposal does not exist yet.
“There is no reform yet, we have not presented it yet,” he said with that calm that sounds like deliberate irony. Their point was clear: what the hell are they protesting against?
But it didn’t stop there. As a good law student that she was, she took out the historical file. He pointed directly to those who today cry out for democracy.
“Why don’t they look back at the electoral frauds of the past? I already mentioned it last week, because they didn’t say anything, on the contrary, they applauded.”
He went further, mentioning specific cases. He said that many of today’s critics financed, or their friends did, the so-called fraud of 2006. He also did not forget about 2012 and the accusations of vote buying.
His message was a scalpel: his current indignation contrasts with his complicit silence in the face of past irregularities.
The “new song” according to the National Palace
Faced with accusations of authoritarianism and surrender of the country, Sheinbaum was forceful. He assured that there is complete freedom to express and demonstrate. What there is, according to her, is a “new song”.
The opposition’s new argument? That the president “is closer to the United States.” An accusation that he left floating in the air, without further comments, as a wink for everyone to draw their own conclusions.
The panorama remains like this: a political battle for a reform that is officially still a ghost. While some see an authoritarian future, others remember a past with stains that some prefer to forget. Historical memory, once again, becomes the battlefield.
