In just a few months, our country has lost the status of being a democratic country that applies the rule of law. This takes us at the worst time in the face of the international changes that are coming, said Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico.
During his participation in the Seminar on Economic Perspectives 2025, organized by the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), he said that the approved reforms, including those to the Judicial Branch and the disappearance of autonomous bodies, have made the country become an autocracy of the party in power.
“If there is no democracy and power is abused, well in a democracy in the next elections the citizens will correct things, but if conditions of electoral competition are created, which are not really competition, but conditions for a single party to prevail by fair means or foul, as happened in the last century, and to that we add these new pieces of the police state puzzle, then we are really facing a very serious situation in our country,” said Ernesto Zedillo.
He also warned that the party in power (Morena), by winning an election, is not only willing to exercise the powers granted to it by law, but is also seeking to radically transform the political system without having the mandate of the people of Mexico to carry out “this transformation,” because the citizens did not vote to destroy the country’s democracy.
Ernesto Zedillo stated that his concern about the destruction of democratic rules is compounded by having a police state in the country, since the weakening of the Judiciary, the militarization of public security and the elimination of access to information are combined with the disappearance of the INAI.
Recalling that the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said a few days ago that Mexico is the most democratic country in the world, he respectfully urged that she translate this statement into facts and stop the process of destruction to which the constitutional reforms that have been approved since her government began are leading her.
“Let us hope that the government, which was democratically elected, behaves like a democratic government and corrects these very serious anomalies that are being introduced into political life, into the civic life of our country, because if this is not done it will be very difficult for us to overcome the economic and geopolitical challenges that lie ahead.”
However, “we have seen that the bet has been doubled by this transformation of democracy into tyranny.”
Proposes to suspend revocation of mandate
After making an analysis, the former president of Mexico considered that it would be positive to approve two transitory articles in the Mexican Constitution. One of them would be to postpone the entry into force of the reforms in various areas seen since September of last year, in order to open a space to confirm that they obey good objectives.
Another would be focused on leaving without effect “the barbarity” of revocation of mandate. “It is a cyanide pill that has been left in the Constitution that has no justification.”
Finally, he said that “what we Mexicans need is a president who governs with a lot of authority, with a lot of power, a democratic country, with the rules of democracy. We do not need a country that is an autocracy of the hegemonic party where the real and immense power is exercised by a leader installed, hidden, in the office attached to the presidency of the Republic. We want a real president.”
Source: elfinanciero
