Miguel Angel Sandoval
In a curious way to say the least, the electoral event that ended in its first moment on 25J with the voting of the first round, is gradually giving way to a set of anomalies worthy of a thriller. Said in Guatemalan colloquial, at the present time, nobody knows anything about anything, nobody has any certainty, we left the world of legal certainty to enter the world of politics to the chapina, with judges and prosecutors involved. In other words, the country’s authorities in their different strata are sending the results of the votes to hell. This is how thick the panorama we live in is.
And not knowing the result of the votes is what makes us think that they want to culminate a kind of coup with Vaseline. And this is where other factors come in that should be among the first when there is a crisis like the current one. I say that it is a crisis because it cannot be qualified differently.
In this absurd film, there are several actors. The TSE that has been giving signs for a long time that the suit is too big for him. They are not supreme and now they are dedicated to litigating rather than counting the votes well. And this is part of what in a respected democracy should be the first point of approach, not if the signatures or seals of a party are correctly presented. Perhaps the measuring stick should be the programmatic approaches, the political and ideological postulates, the presence of cadre training schools, and everything we know is needed in political parties, but that the TSE is not interested in as it prefers to verify signatures and stamps.
Then there’s the inexplicable CSJ. It does not seem that there is ill will when giving an opinion on it, but what is true is that they have been usurping a position that does not correspond to them for more than three years. It is what the constitution determines, not what occurs to any of our political or legal analysts. The CSJ can approve or reject amparo and other resources, but this leaves the same to the citizens who know that the magistrates have original vice. But, if one course or another is finally taken, then the CC is there to correct or approve what was done by the usurpers.
The truth of the case is that we gradually move to a scheme where votes are the least of it, or in other words, the popular will expressed in votes, the cornerstone of democracy, today, is worth nothing in our country, because what is expected from one moment to the next is that the MP, in a role typical of the inquisition, pokes its nose into the old stationery and without much sense of the TSE, to find, by the egg, a proof or Semi-proof, or something that looks like one, that the accused party, in this case, Semilla, is the author of the most colossal fraud, unparalleled in the political history of our beloved homeland. Seeing is believing.
As a result of all this, the second round elections, scheduled for August 20, are today, as they say colloquially, on the tail of a deer. This is because it is not known if the MP will issue arrest warrants for the bad Guatemalans affiliated with Semilla, or if the CC will grant any amparo presented by Juan Pérez or Pedro López, or if the new TSE registrar, who replaces the registrar vacationer that he left the country because he had his vacations… it is not known if to Panama or La Cochinchina. So things and facts.
It’s what everyone talks about these days. The serious thing about it all is that the idea that voting as the most important right of the citizen in a democracy is ceasing to make sense. This is due to the science and patience of actors who should have a more belligerent attitude in defense of the citizen vote. I’m talking about the TSE itself, about the political parties that in the days that have passed after 25J, have plunged into a shameful silence. Except for a statement here or there, with platitudes, with empty statements, as if everyone were careful not to bother the authorities that we have already seen how they act, so as not to lose registration, or the benefits of having a party record.
And there is also the PDH, whose silence, in the face of the violation of the human rights of voters, makes it seem like the vice president of the republic, that is, part of the parsley order. Neither seen nor heard. Happy with their status as an ornament. The country may well fall, its political institutions go to hell, these characters do not say anything, because everything indicates that they have the syndrome of wise monkeys. This is the country that exists now, and this is the country that we want to change with the informed and massive vote on August 20.
