The Moratorium was agreed around a table. Presents, the businessman Claudio X. and the presidents of the three Opposition parties.
The Moratorium: the Opposition would not negotiate or vote for any amendment to the Constitution, between now and the end of the days of this presidency.
The order went down to the opposition legislators, without any debate in between. The manager does not have to discuss his orders with the employees.
What the legislators did do was find a story for the order beyond the violent “No, nothing with AMLO”. They are people who are distinguished by the long use of the language.
“The Constitution must be protected from reforms,” a lawyer wrote in great style in a newspaper and several others seconded her. That coming from three parties that during the last 35 years, the so-called years neoliberals, They reformed the Constitution 486 times.
“We must stop the destruction of the Democracy”, tried others an explanation. As if debating and negotiating were not Democracy in motion.
“Is that Morena does not admit even the change of a comma to its reforms”. That when Morena accepted 9 of the 12 amendments to the Electricity Reform, which the Opposition killed in any way with its vote against.
“We owe it to our voters”, some witty legislators also said there.
They came to visit their constituents in meetings that were well attended and where the people shouted in chorus and with their fists raised Moratorium, moratorium, moratorium. A pandemonium of enthusiasm.
Well, no. No legislator went to consult any elector. In the chain of command, the voters are the last echelon, something like the temporary workers of a company. We do our job—vote at the polls—and then get fired, until years later they call us back to vote.
Nothing, never, ever with Morena, was the order from above and the legislative employees snapped to attention.
—Yes, boss.
Well, not all of them. There was a huge rebellion of three legislators, who remembered that they were hired by the people to lead a parliamentary life, not by Claudius X.
And there are another ten frankly angry, but so far they have disciplined themselves.
And once the story of false equivalences was armed (Democracy equals not negotiating, Stop the destruction equals canceling Congress), the order descended without dissent to the analysis tables of the private TV, which often seem like extensions of the Opposition.
Many analysts have been seen to call for a vote against Morena. An analyst has even been seen saying on camera: “Don’t despair, if we organize ourselves we can win in 2024.” Do you really know that all viewers hate Morena?
And more than one analyst has also been seen to make tortured accounts of how to beat Morena in 2024. I quote, words more, words less:
—If we join the votes of Sinaloa with those of Puebla and those of Hidalgo, and we bring them together, because they are scattered, I think we did win.
As if the analyst were in Claudio X’s war room. Or in his kitchen, collecting coins for the errand.
But on this occasion not even at the private TV analysis tables did the enthusiasm for ending parliamentary life catch fire, although there was not, as said before: dissent, nor did anyone point out the business-like discipline with which it has been imposed.
Wow, in the commercial TV Today anything can be said against political power, but nothing is said about economic power. It is never taken into account. It is as if it did not exist: it is the great taboo.
They tell me that Don Claudio X. ended the meeting around the table where the Moratorium arose with very harsh words:
“Well, here it is, guys. Tomorrow they come to close the Congress and then they go to the cleaners for my clean clothes.
Well, no. I don’t know if he said that. What yes, closed the Congress.
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