In Mexico’s elections, AMLO and allies’ war on ‘elites’ puts democracy’s watchdogs under fire

Felix Salgado Macedonio, accused of rape by several women, waves at supporters in Acapulco on March 13 when he launched his campaign for the governorship of Mexico's Guerrero state. He was later disqualified, but his daughter took his place on the ballot.At a boisterous campaign rally in one of Acapulco’s toughest barrios, a politician called El Toro – the bull – delighted a partisan audience by singing a ranchera tune.

A Salgado supporter takes part in a rally outside the National Electoral Institute office in Mexico City on April 12.Mexico goes to the polls Sunday in midterm elections to renew its entire 500-seat lower house of Congress and pick governors in 15 of the 32 states. Like most midterm elections, it’s also a referendum on the sitting president. Mr. Lopez Obrador has been popular and populist while presiding over a government of good intentions, albeit one with scant success.

For his part, Mr. Salgado threatened the INE president Lorenzo Cordova, telling a crowd of protesting supporters, “Wouldn’t the Mexican people like to know where [he] lives?” He eventually accepted his disqualification, but not before reviving the old Mexican practice of replacing himself with a relative.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador looks on during a daily briefing in Mexico City on May 28.

“It’s a semi-autocratic regime,” said Ilan Semo, historian at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. All polls show MORENA, the President’s party, winning the most seats, but whether it can maintain its majority in the lower house remains uncertain. “I have other information,” AMLO will often say at a press conferences, when confronted with uncomfortable facts. Such is its importance to AMLO that “the mananera is his government,” Luis Antonio Espino, author of the book on AMLO’s populist discourse. “He governs in real time.”

But the results of AMLO’s stipend schemes are hard to assess, and some analysts suspect he is spending about the same on the schemes as past governments did on the social programs cancelled by him. Unlike those programs, Mr. Espino says, the money arrives alongside gestures made by AMLO, such as wearing rumpled suits, being chauffeured in a Volkswagen Jetta, scrapping presidential pensions and slashing bureaucrats’ salaries – with those savings being directed to the poor.

In the face of a decimated political opposition, the critics of AMLO that have emerged are feminists protesting rampant killings of women in Mexico – and the shoddy investigations into the crimes. He has been unable to diminish those efforts, despite accusing them of being “manipulated” by “conservatives.” He also refused to act on the abortion issue and cut funding for women’s shelters.

DeniseDresserG Some groups of people in the USA have benefited for decades from the corruption, insecurity and impunity that prevail in Mexico and it is not in their interest to see changes in our country.

el_reportero Symphony of clowns! 0 analysis, 100% noise. AMLO has the support of 🇲🇽 citizens

I feel really bad for my mexican friends. I've reported almost 100 human rights violations in the past few months. Most of them involve children. Children without cancer medication, sexually abused and in extreme poverty. And now... This: the beggining of a dictatorship.

zepecaos Any “serious” analysis that misses to explain why the president still has the support he has, should be suspicious. Mentioning all the mistakes and not talking about the historic increase on minimum wage, it’s bias.

Los perros del PRIANRDMC Y DEMAS REMORAS frotándose las manos para seguir robando y ya no ser damnificados del gobierno, en verdad quieren ver a los mexicanos en pobreza y los ricos más ricos, México ya no es colonia para el saqueo.

Any time the US wants to feel good about itself, it doesn’t have to look far. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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