The presence of candidates and coalition activists has sparked media questions about the civic nature of the event.
The National Civic Front and the Pink Tide Movement Quintana Roo have called on the citizens of Cancún, Playa del Carmen, and Chetumal to participate in the upcoming National March on May 19, in defense of Democracy, the Republic, and the promotion of voting.
At a press conference, former federal deputy Rosario Guerra Díaz and David Tatán of the Civic Front stressed the urgency for citizens to make their voices heard by taking to the streets to protest for the separation of powers, balances, and freedoms threatened by the federal government.
The gathering will begin at 11 a.m. in the three cities of Quintana Roo, in line with the national march to be held in 98 cities across Mexico, as a show of resistance to what Guerra Díaz called “the onslaught of state election.”
At the announcement of the call, Senator Gustavo Madero Muñoz of the National Action Party (PAN); his colleague, Mayuli Martínez, who is running for re-election; Jorge Rodríguez, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the PAN coalition for the municipal presidency of Cancún; and PAN leaders at the state and local levels were present.
The presence of the candidates and coalition activists fueled media questions about the civic character, not only of the march but also of the movement known as “Pink Tide,” composed of organizations such as Unidos para Mejorar, Sí por México, Une México, and the Civic Front itself.
Guerra, who leads the latter organization, the National Civic Front, maintained that this social movement is civic, the most important of modern times, and has mobilized Mexico on two occasions “against authoritarianism, corruption, and abuses.”
“We are a civic current that has united with many other civil society organizations to rescue the Republic, at a time when not parties, not candidates, but the future of the country is at stake,” she said.
She explained that on June 2, there are only two options: “To maintain and increase authoritarianism, to have control of power, money, to try to make a hegemonic party, to reduce the number of deputies and remove plurality in the representation of Congress; to keep the country without infrastructure, without light, without water, without the capacity to attract investments.
“Or to limit the presidentialism that has done us so much harm, to moderate it and create what we have proposed: a coalition government, with a plural cabinet, with the best men and women, where decisions are collegiate and presidential power is limited, deciding things for the country and not for the whims of one person,” she explained.
The former deputy emphasized that the so-called Pink Tide is against attacks on the press for exercising freedom of expression and censorship of opinion currents for not accepting “single thought.”
“The Pink Tide has already emerged. We have marched to defend the INE; the march to defend the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), the march for Democracy.
“And this Sunday we will go out with a march to defend the Republic, the separation of powers, the balance of powers, the country’s ability to balance with autonomous bodies, which were created precisely to make specialized decisions through experts on the topics,” she asserted.
She added that López Obrador intends to “exercise absolute power” because “he feels above the laws, because he claims to have a moral authority that we do not recognize.”
“It is time to raise our voices. We cannot remain silent; it is time to go out and vote,” she affirmed, assuring that although “Xóchitl has already won,” it is necessary that her victory be respected with a larger than expected vote difference.
David Tatán and Gustavo Madero rejected that the march is partisan and agreed that the so-called “Pink Tide” emerged three years ago, from the plurality of the citizenry itself, even before the opposition candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, emerged as an option for the presidency of the Republic, so they considered it not pertinent to speculate about the legitimacy of the movement.
Madero also rejected that promoting the vision of the two “Mexicos” confronted around the figure of López Obrador and his regime contributes to deepening the division of the country and emphasized that for this reason Xóchitl Gálvez has promised to seek to reconcile the country.
Source: El Universal
