Sonia Metropolitana – Astrolabio

Octavio César Mendoza

When she was a candidate for state governor in 2015, Sonia Mendoza toured the state of Potosí on at least four occasions. Today, she is the only candidate for the municipal presidency of San Luis Potosí who has visited every corner of the capital. Sonia follows the three “S” rule of wear and tear: sweat, saliva and soles. She goes and knocks on the doors of homes where people express their despair over the lack of water, and their fear of the insecurity they suffer in the streets. Her main opponent, the PRI mayor, has only reported closed-door meetings, and has made million-dollar investments in the media, social networks and surveys. Her bet is to create a media perception of early triumph.

The elections, however, are won on land, through the mobilization of the hard vote and the strategy of convincing undecided voters. And that is where Sonia has taken advantage, since she has an experienced electoral army and has been able to add both the Green and Morena operators, and many silent deserters from the PRI and the PAN. Without complaining about the dirty war, making proposals and opening the way throughout the capital, Sonia advances towards June 2 with the conviction that she is going to change the reality of the main city of the state of Potosí. And boy does she have the character to make that commitment.

This is where the interesting part of today’s analysis comes: Sonia Mendoza’s central idea to remove San Luis capital from its status as an entity kidnapped by the Prianista right, is to generate a great alliance with the City Councils that surround it: Soledad, Mexquitic , Villa de Reyes, Ahualulco, Villa de Zaragoza, Villa de Arista, Santa María del Río, Villa de Arriaga, Moctezuma and Tierra Nueva. And it is a more than reasonable strategy, and one that far exceeds the vision of the licensed PRI mayor.

Let’s see: a PRIAN government in the capital that has isolated itself, that does not grow at the rate that Soledad de Graciano Sánchez does; A capital city whose aquifers have been depleted by so much overexploitation, that does not make alliances with neighboring municipalities to combat insecurity, is a government that has placed a rubber bag on its head and has tied its hands to a chair. ; That is to say, it is self-sequestered by the personal ambitions of those who manage it.

In their desperation to maintain the stronghold of power in which the cursed inheritance of the PRIAN has been wound up, what has mattered the least is the development of San Luis Potosí and the solution of its three most complicated problems: water, security and mobility. Another PRIAN municipal government, and the isolation is going to cost a lot to the people of Potosí who live in the Gran Tunal valley. The water crisis, the insecurity crisis and the mobility crisis will spread. And even more so if the mayor’s goal is to take the quantum leap towards the PRIAN candidacy for the state governorship. Now waters!

The reader will question, “And why does Sonia Mendoza think of the Metropolitan Zone as a project to unite efforts and potential, and Galindo does not?” and the writer will respond: “Because Sonia knows that Soledad de Graciano Sánchez has sufficient territorial reserves to expand the industrial cluster; Sonia knows that Villa de Reyes has the necessary water resources to sustain the habitability of the metropolitan area; Sonia knows that Mexquitic de Carmona is the next major housing development to which 40,000 residents of the capital will emigrate over the next 10 years; Sonia knows that new dams are required that can be built in Santa María del Río, Villa de Zaragoza or Villa de Arista; Sonia knows that, to move the productive mass of the capital, a new macro-library is needed that manages better and faster mobility.” Sonia knows that, and more.

Therefore, if the municipalities that surround the state capital see that this leadership will be essential to share development thanks to the economic resources that the most important City Hall has, they will surely participate in the creation of one of the most modern Metropolitan Areas in Mexico. . In that sense, I anticipate that the green vote will foster a belt of wills whose coincidence will be the well-being of all. San Luis Potosí capital must be in shape to tighten that belt and start a long-distance race that requires a lot of physical condition, which the obese PRIAN apparatus lost due to its excessive appetite for public resources.

Contrary to what many of us wish, if the PRIAN manages to retain power, San Luis Potosí, the capital, will continue to be a source of problems and not solutions, and we will have to wait three more years for the change that has already come to most of us. of the State with Ricardo Gallardo Cardona and his allied mayors. A miscalculation of the interests of the inhabitants of the small homeland whose epicenter is San Miguelito can cause a three-year migraine that will eventually turn into an embolism. I don’t want to say that I told you, mind you.

But there is no need to be alarmed but, rather, to think calmly. On June 2, finally, we will vote for two options: the problematic conservatism of PRIAN, or the work project that will give order, peace, progress and sustainability not only to the citizens of the wealthy sector, but to the people of the entire metropolitan area. , which is the bet of the PVEM-Morena-PT alliance. Between both options is the type of leadership desirable to guide it.

From my point of view, that leadership is the one that has a vision for the future, and that wants to strengthen the Potosí society of the Central Region through the union of wills, resources and efforts, and that is the profile of Sonia Mendoza. His constant enthusiasm, his manifest desire to transform San Luis Potosí, as well as his commitment that we will not spend another three years drowning in garbage, insecurity and lack of water, are essential elements of a speech that seeks to motivate those who still They are hesitant when it comes to thinking about who they will vote for. It is the time of women, she has said, and I believe it is the time of women who are leaders. I said.

I do not find valid, useful or reasonable reasons to endorse support for the PRIAN for three more years, despite the fact that its campaign slogan seeks to resort to the distrust that better known bad than good unknown, which is a mediocre thought. The PRIAN has failed in the state capital. And although Sonia Metropolitana’s play on words in this column bothers more than one person, we will have to ask the leaders of the neighboring municipalities: if they could vote in the capital, who would they do it for? For the future, or for the past? For a PRIAN whose government model has already proven to be exhausted, or for a leftist model that also wants to change the face of the state capital as it is doing in the municipalities where the Green Party governs?

That is what, deep down, should lead us to reflect on the vote of the capital’s citizens; especially if the neighboring municipalities do want to take advantage of the historic opportunity of having local, state and municipal authorities willing to work hand in hand because ideologically they share the same vocation: that the people be the government and the beneficiary of the fruits of the country, to the at the same time – this hurts the oligarchs and their employees.

If we look towards 2027 with the two filters that can be adapted to the telescope of political speculation, we will see the prolongation of the disaster that the PRIAN already represents, or the recovery of the greatness of San Luis Potosí at the hands of the leftist alliance PVEM -Morena-PT.

It is in the hands and in the conscience of Potosí society to decide, beyond the color of the partisan signs, whether we give the green light or leave the red light to the development of the state capital.

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