Nepotism lives
May God's will (and in this case the people's will) be done on my friend's oxen. After having celebrated as a great democratic idea of President Claudia Sheinbaum the prohibition of direct relatives being able to succeed a municipal president or a governor, the legislators of Morena and the Green Party reached an agreement to put a transitional provision in the law that this provision will apply until 2030, when none of the current politicians who are in the position of succeeding a relative will see their aspiration frustrated.
There are three very specific cases that are in this condition: Guerrero senator Félix Salgado Macedonio, who was vetoed by his own party in 2021 and who, in an agreement with President López Obrador, imposed his daughter as governor of Guerrero. The senator is Morena's most visible candidate for 2027. The second case is that of Saúl Monreal, senator for Zacatecas, brother of David Monreal, current governor of that state and Ricardo Monreal, the leader of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies. The Monreals are not from Zacatecas; Zacatecas belongs to them. They have become a family of caciques and were undoubtedly one of the recipients of the reform. The third is that of San Luis Potosí. The current governor, elected by the Green Party in agreement with Morena, Ricardo Gallardo, wants to leave his wife, Ruth González Silva, as his successor. To achieve this, the leader of the Green Party in the Senate, Manuel Velasco, defended nepotism like a dog.
This is the most obvious political defeat of President Claudia Sheinbaum so far in this six-year term. In other defeats, the President could conceal or even make it seem as if she had wanted it that way, as was the case with some cabinet or budget appointments. This was the first initiative that was entirely hers, she presented it with great fanfare in Querétaro on February 5 and, just 20 days later, the party's powers that be showed who rules in the chambers.
Non-reelection and the anti-nepotism law were the weapons with which the President planned to face the 2027 election. Gaining space for her group and her project is essential to have a second half of the six-year term with greater capacity for political maneuvering.
There are 24 months left before the moment of defining the candidates and it is expected that, during this period, the President will accumulate power. However, today, what we see is a party in the hands of the son of the former president, two poles of power outside the President in the chambers with Adán Augusto in the Senate and Ricardo Monreal in the House of Representatives, and a weakened, if not non-existent, political team of the President.
Nepotism is alive and well.
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