Octavio César Mendoza
After the elections of June 2, 2024, the Party of the Democratic Revolution lost its registration at the national level. Locally, another relatively long-lived political party until then, called Popular Conscience, also lost its registration. An obvious difference between these political institutes is an ontological element: the first was founded by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, while the second was founded by Óscar Vera. No one disputes Cárdenas’ historical legacy, and few are oblivious to Vera’s lucrative history.
Locally there was another big loser: the PAN. First, he gave up the candidacy for the municipal presidency of the capital of the state of San Luis Potosí to a PRI militant who does not intend to stop being tricolor: Enrique Galindo. His re-election is a defeat for the PAN because this party contributed the majority vote to achieve said victory that places the mayor as a pre-candidate for governor, but also as a target of all reasonable criticism. It will be two years of wear and tear that began with the tragedy of the club called “RICH”.
Second: towards the interior of the state, the result of the PAN in the municipal elections is another clear example of its moral defeat, since this party did not manage to win a single councilor in 32 of the 58 municipalities, and lost Ciudad del Maíz, a municipality that Mireya Vancini governed, who was rewarded with the first multi-member indigo deputation: a gift too great for those who could not prevent the municipal presidency, which was in her hands, from being taken away from them for not knowing how to govern.
Mireya Vancini herself, as well as Rubén Guajardo and Aranza Puente, who were re-elected as deputies, Verónica Rodríguez, today a newly elected senator, and David Azuara, whose merit is being the brother of Xavier Azuara and who was elected as a federal deputy, plus a handful of mayors and councilors scattered as quotas of the different groups that are led by chiefs within the indigo, were the only winners of the PAN. The militancy was defeated, and the institutions to which the winners arrived, too.
In the PAN, electoral failure has been normalized as a useful model to obtain salaries, prerogatives and bargaining spaces for its small mafia groups. Their national and state steering committees have become administrators of the defeats because, although it may be a paradox, it is evident that they have the same principles as AMLO of prioritizing loyalty to the “moche” over the ability to serve the people; although their ninety percent is equivalent to their ability to be defeated and win to steal.
In San Luis Potosí, another three years will have to pass before society realizes that it is time to throw the PAN into the dustbin of history, in case the names and faces of its candidates remain the same. . The PAN wasted a historic opportunity to show renewal, but chose to remain in the exercise of patrimonial power. The Potosinos of the Capital, for their part, also wasted the historic opportunity to have a cool city; or at least with water and safety.
But it will only be three years of waiting, because the results of those who have benefited from those voters will continue to be a reminder of this historical error. And here is the recommendation of a server for those (Fernández Noroña would say) “prianiaguados”: the hat of pride should not only be removed when entering a church, but also when receiving criticism, demanding results, and asking for a minimum of decency to those who took refuge in those bastions that are such because they continue to be intoxicated with classism.
What to say about the PRI? The PRI is “Alito” and there cannot be a worse historical, ethical, political, moral, intellectual and electoral defeat; and in San Luis Potosí, the PRI took the PAN by storm. This combination of foreign ideological currents is what has led the old humanist party of Mexico to disaster. And it will happen in San Luis Potosí, where the parasitic jump of PRI militants to the capital’s City Hall ends up destroying the host, after having preyed on everything possible until leaving the pure shell.
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He is a poet, writer, commentator and political consultant. He currently occupies the General Directorate of Strategic Studies and Political Development of the General Secretariat of the State Government. He has led the Publications and Literature Directorate of the Secult-SLP on two occasions, and was an advisor to Marcelo de los Santos Fraga from 1999 to 2014, in the City Council and State Government of SLP, and in the Mint of Mexico. He winner of the National Youth Awards in Arts (1995), Manuel José Othón for Poetry (1998) and 20 de Noviembre for Narrative (2010). He has published the poetry books “Wolf for beginners”, “The dark lineage of the miracle”, “Recreation areas”, “Reverse hummingbird”, “War materials” and “Your name in the leaves”.
