Miguel Angel Sandoval
One of the most popular issues at election time is the repeated statement over and over again, that we chapines vote or try to choose among the bad guys, at least worse. This is not always the case, and to show the last three governments. It was chosen badly, really badly. In all the cases mentioned, the issue was the weariness of the political parties and their candidates. To the extent that due to this simplistic analysis, the difference between the bad and the less bad was no longer seen. But above all the situation of the country and what was best for the country. And the results do not leave us room for many mistakes.
But now we have a scenario that we should analyze with a better eye. Let’s see. We know that the government’s commitment is Conde’s. This would ensure that anomalous acts, committed or not, but which have transcended, and are somehow public knowledge, are not reviewed. For this, some 200 mayors “recruited” for the government party were talked to exhaustion, through the budget, pressure and other tricks. In addition, with the participation of various ministries (there is no concrete evidence, but dubious works, assigned to the friends yes)
On the other hand, it is known that the traditional oligarchy, with the cement growers as the spearhead, bet on the daughter of the general and her allies, Creole fascism, on the tortrix, to promote an agenda of state terrorism, with the penalty of death as a figurehead. And in general, a regressive agenda in all fields, with a conservative idea of the family as the only legitimate one, in the realm of double standards, and façade democracy, in the familiar style.
With the samples, surveys or polls published, today we have that these two scenarios are not going to occur (except for a vulgar fraud or a coup) that continuity and tortrix fascism should not prosper, which opens a panorama that was not present in the first months of the campaign. And this, due in part, to the great shortcomings of electoral bodies, and a growing citizen weariness, including pressure on jurisdictional bodies. For this reason, these expressions of the extreme right will be the big losers in the process that will have its first phase on June 25, which will sanction that the two indicated options will not pass.
And we are left with, not the least bad, but a scenario that should be one of favorable conditions to rescue our country’s democracy, which in recent years has declined, has faded and for this reason we were faced with the dilemma between democracy or barbarism. It does not mean that with the options that are presented, Sandra, Mulet and with less possibilities Villacorta, the issues of democracy will be resolved, but if a much more favorable scenario can be proposed, than what was thought could develop, with an electoral victory , like the one imagined by the strategists of the general’s daughter and continuity.
The debate that this yes, has historical scope, has to do with the contents of democracy, with its uses and customs, with the approach to the most urgent social and economic issues, and with the reconstitution of the institutional fabric that has been disrupted in the last decade. It is therefore essential to know how to read what is at stake, and not think that everything is more of the same, or that there are no more favorable or usable scenarios for progressive forces in their social and political aspects. The electoral situation of this 2023, with all that is complex, beaten, violated, does offer us a democratic respite and we have to build that.
