TOOK Cynics
Aurelio Ramos Méndez
In 1978, Felipe Calderón was just a boy of 16 years but perhaps "mature enough", as the IFE twenties festive propaganda referred to the now President paraphrased Wednesday closed the Latin American Democracy Forum. By the same token, surely recalls the prescient warning, the light of reality, that "the worst that can happen to Mexico is becoming a country of cynics."
With those words spoken in his second report on the work José López Portillo incurred the animosity of its opponents, especially the PAN, who blinded by Manichaeism skinned him at the point of recriminations, with the belief to see him as the talking donkey ears. Thirty-two years later, however, the warning track to be met.
The Head of State Office appeared virtually unannounced at the forum held at the Palacio de Minería. Two days earlier he had canceled his scheduled attendance at the opening, which materialized later, off the agenda, at the close. Would it be the cause of the initial cancellation insurance against the risk of being caught to Rafael Correa, a day that members of the SME strangled the center of the capital to protest the first anniversary of the extinction of Light and Power? Was itching to avoid meeting that council members in July just accused him of violating the Constitution and the Cofipe? It is an enigma.
Whatever the cause of the hesitation between going or not the forum organized by the IFE, the head of the nation spared no praise for the institute, which considered "one of the greatest assets institutional life of Mexico. "
Calderón was not stingy in recognition of the electoral body as the body is essential to democracy, and even drew a parallel between his personal politics and the vicissitudes of school birthday. Listening to him one would think that, in effect, is confronted with a politician respectful of the fundamental principles of the IFE, particularly the legality, fairness and impartiality. The facts say otherwise.
The Chief Executive reminded the intense negotiations, his party leaders and others-with the Interior Minister, Emilio Chuayfett Chemor, in 1994, by which he said it was possible to reconcile the appointment citizens of directors, independence of the IFE and the government out of this Institute. He said nothing, however, the way how the parts highlighting the PAN, have managed to make nugatory the successive, endless electoral reforms.
the citizenship of the IFE, for example, came to acquire trim bad joke when the shoe of the General Council occupied a place very plump citizen Executive supposedly, theoretically unrelated to any party, Juan Molinar Horcasitas. The same as truck-what-documented media displayed a colorful decal with the initials of PAN, challenging with cynicism, and since then the law. A Molinar, also must be said, did not receive even a mild rebuke by his colleagues, Alonso Lujambio and José Woldenberg, among others.
The Chairman raised the need to issue a law regulating Article 134 of the Constitution, in order to clarify what the ban on candidates and parties to buy space in print and electronic media, with a view to prevent surreptitious forms of propaganda. Thing would have seen it, but it is not unreasonable to assume that a trickle of blood ran down the corners of the mouth of the host of Los Pinos.
"That is, the figures not only of traditional spots, but those who are called integrated packages or advertisements disguised remains a challenge that we have not resolved and it would be better resolved before the coming elections, "Calderon said. And he advocated a scheme "healthy and sound" of advertising so that the city "not only sympathize with the most beautiful spot or the most beautiful actress that comes to defend, or actor, defending a political party, but truly say whether that game is good sense in what he proposes, or not. "
seems impossible that such expressions were uttered by the ruler whose election campaign was characterized by the use and abuse of integrated packages of advertising disguise, especially on television, whose image was surreptitiously promoted not only news but also in telenovelas, entertainment, comedy, music, contests, and even commercial advertising!
At the height of shamelessness, as if it were an uncontrollable appetite, a real vice, Calderón was administered to his audience surreptitiously, of course, considerable amount of proselytizing PAN. Or if you prefer, antipriista activism, particularly against Enrique Peña Nieto. He elaborated on the risk of political and economic regression, urged to understand that there is no past and no future, and that the first - Oops ma'am! - "in political terms is authoritarianism, autocracy, even repression, manipulation."
The Michoacan as energy secretary to use his position and public money to propel the presidential candidacy, and therefore deserved a reprimand from his boss, Vicente Fox, the politician who rewarded then with the Ministry of Interior with its main backer Francisco Ramirez Acuna was also language-with obvious Jiribilla-on the need for fairness in electoral competition.
required monitoring, "he said in campaigns and transparency in the use of public resources. No need to look to the state of Mexico to designate the recipient of his speech, when one considers that the regulations referred to in Article 134 seeks to incorporate penalties for officials who can use their positions and public funds to build their applications.
So, without shame or modesty, Calderón attended the forum on the IFE to give a speech in which he grandly dressed up its campaign against the PRI and Peña Grandson, and exalted with the institute's history hypocrisy, but covered with a veil of amnesia the torpedoing of his party to this body that said however, "has helped both to democracy in Mexico."
A speech that contained not a word about the angry reaction to the Head of State caused him to have been identified as a violator of the Constitution and the Cofipe, in a resolution of counteracting IFE boldly but unsuccessfully Zuarth Roberto Gil.
Decency, caramba!
