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When the president wins an election race, cheating
When the president wins an election race, cheating
Jorge Ramos Ávalos
(25 November 2012). - The problem for the new president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, is very simple: millions of Mexicans believe he won cheating. And the problem for the millions of Mexicans who are convinced that Peña Nieto won more votes in the last election because he did traps is that, like it or not, he will be president for six years. This is reality. What do we do now?
It is very hard to believe the Institutional Revolutionary Party, when they say they have changed and that they are no longer the dinosaurs they were before, because to win the last election they committed the same abuses that had characterized them during his long 71 years in power. They spent more than the other candidates, using television for years to get an unfair advantage- The state governments used state resources, tried to buy votes through payments and cards, pressured judges and officials to make a blind eye, and in the end, with all those cheating, they got more votes. If they did that when they didn’t had the presidency, can you imagine what they will do in 2018?
The cheating that had made Peña Nieto win the elections,oddly weren`t seen by the Electoral Court judges that stated as “unfounded alegations” or fraud and concluded that Mexico had free and fair Elections” They saw nothing. Or as a journalist friend told me: Yes indeed. Peña Nieto won with traps and was not ethical in the campaign , but nothing he did, was illegal” Pretty justice!.
Many have said that they will not recognize Peña Nieto as legitimate president. I respect those views. Do not blame them. They do not want an imposition. However, Peña Nieto will act as President, with band, and in the overnment house. "You have no legitimacy," they say. But any way he is just going to rule.
So with don’t have any options, but to denounce the traps, protest, make clear our position and let Peña Nieto to know at every opportunity that we do not accept the way he became President. Surely that won’t bother him. But he should know that hewill govern a divided, angry and a country in crisis.
OF course that Peña Nieto, won’t be the first president from the Intitutional Revolutionary Party who arrives to the government with a an electoral lack of legitimacy. Carlos Salinas de Gortari won with the greatest electoral fraud comitted in the history of Mexico, and even then, he was on power during the six years term. Same happened to Ernesto Zedillo, who won by Salinas’ finger pointing at him, and ruled also during six long years.
Anyway, Peña Nieto will rule from Los Pinos and no Mexican will have any interest that his president do it badly. Even those who voted against him
And even if it is unacceptable in a true democracy as deceitful as abusive as Peña Nieto won, Mexico can not afford to become paralyzed and wait until 2018. This is the President imposed on us and we must deal with it. That's what happens in a democracy as imperfect and as young as ours, just 12 years old.
We can not wait another six years to solve the problem of crime. What Mexican family has not been touched by violence or by the dreadful fear of not having a state that protects your life? We can not wait six years to create the millions of jobs the country needs only to give work to young people entering the workforce.
Reducing crime in a meaningful way and to create good jobs, those are the priorities. Peña Nieto hopefully can do something. I really hope he does well. But that does not remove the indignation and anger over an election in which the winner took advantage of a very flawed electoral system and that candidates were not equal. What do we do?
OUr society is much more independent, modern, strong and democratic before 2000. Peña Nieto will not be a Superpresident as in the seven decades of authoritarian PRI. So our job as journalists is to question Peña Nieto at all times and not let it lie. The political opposition will negotiate with the new government for the good of the country. The millions of Mexicans who voted for him will not succeed without waiting and expecting miracles presidential Peña Nieto govern for all and not just for your friends. And all will ensure that Mexico, in 2018, has no other president whose election is questioned.
This is what to do when the President wins by cheating.[/font]
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Jorge Ramos Ávalos
(25 November 2012). - The problem for the new president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, is very simple: millions of Mexicans believe he won cheating. And the problem for the millions of Mexicans who are convinced that Peña Nieto won more votes in the last election because he did traps is that, like it or not, he will be president for six years. This is reality. What do we do now?
It is very hard to believe the Institutional Revolutionary Party, when they say they have changed and that they are no longer the dinosaurs they were before, because to win the last election they committed the same abuses that had characterized them during his long 71 years in power. They spent more than the other candidates, using television for years to get an unfair advantage- The state governments used state resources, tried to buy votes through payments and cards, pressured judges and officials to make a blind eye, and in the end, with all those cheating, they got more votes. If they did that when they didn’t had the presidency, can you imagine what they will do in 2018?
The cheating that had made Peña Nieto win the elections,oddly weren`t seen by the Electoral Court judges that stated as “unfounded alegations” or fraud and concluded that Mexico had free and fair Elections” They saw nothing. Or as a journalist friend told me: Yes indeed. Peña Nieto won with traps and was not ethical in the campaign , but nothing he did, was illegal” Pretty justice!.
Many have said that they will not recognize Peña Nieto as legitimate president. I respect those views. Do not blame them. They do not want an imposition. However, Peña Nieto will act as President, with band, and in the overnment house. "You have no legitimacy," they say. But any way he is just going to rule.
So with don’t have any options, but to denounce the traps, protest, make clear our position and let Peña Nieto to know at every opportunity that we do not accept the way he became President. Surely that won’t bother him. But he should know that hewill govern a divided, angry and a country in crisis.
OF course that Peña Nieto, won’t be the first president from the Intitutional Revolutionary Party who arrives to the government with a an electoral lack of legitimacy. Carlos Salinas de Gortari won with the greatest electoral fraud comitted in the history of Mexico, and even then, he was on power during the six years term. Same happened to Ernesto Zedillo, who won by Salinas’ finger pointing at him, and ruled also during six long years.
Anyway, Peña Nieto will rule from Los Pinos and no Mexican will have any interest that his president do it badly. Even those who voted against him
And even if it is unacceptable in a true democracy as deceitful as abusive as Peña Nieto won, Mexico can not afford to become paralyzed and wait until 2018. This is the President imposed on us and we must deal with it. That's what happens in a democracy as imperfect and as young as ours, just 12 years old.
We can not wait another six years to solve the problem of crime. What Mexican family has not been touched by violence or by the dreadful fear of not having a state that protects your life? We can not wait six years to create the millions of jobs the country needs only to give work to young people entering the workforce.
Reducing crime in a meaningful way and to create good jobs, those are the priorities. Peña Nieto hopefully can do something. I really hope he does well. But that does not remove the indignation and anger over an election in which the winner took advantage of a very flawed electoral system and that candidates were not equal. What do we do?
OUr society is much more independent, modern, strong and democratic before 2000. Peña Nieto will not be a Superpresident as in the seven decades of authoritarian PRI. So our job as journalists is to question Peña Nieto at all times and not let it lie. The political opposition will negotiate with the new government for the good of the country. The millions of Mexicans who voted for him will not succeed without waiting and expecting miracles presidential Peña Nieto govern for all and not just for your friends. And all will ensure that Mexico, in 2018, has no other president whose election is questioned.
This is what to do when the President wins by cheating.[/font]
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