Mexico Must Not Fall into Authoritarianism

Since 2018, Mexico has suffered an authoritarian backsliding, with the Executive branch trying to capture both the Legislative and the Judicial branches in the country. However civil society has bravely stand against this totalitarian onslaught by signaling its pernicious effects. The mobilization of millions of Mexican citizens in the streets has been a sign of the present times.

Most recently, the efforts of the authoritarian government have focused in the overrepresentation of the oficialism in Congress and the Judiciary reform. The oficialist coalition is trying to capture 74% of seats with only 54% of the votes, as well as making the judges election by ballots, instead of merit. 

These two reforms would constitute the final stone in the tomb of democracy in Mexico, allowing for constitutional changes that favour the oficialism. In that case, citizens will not have any tool to defend their basic rights like property or freedom of speech from the government. It will be the end of our liberties as we Mexicans know it.

Mexico has come a long way from a regime like that. For almost 40 years we Mexicans have struggled to have a representative system in the government to allow for voices from the opposition and not just the voices from the ruling party in the public arena. We have never lived restraining from the opposition voices like we are living nowadays.

We must defend democracy. We must reject overrepresentation in the Mexican Congress as well as reject the Judiciary Reform. We must protect a Constitution that took a whole Revolution to create. Our rights and freedom are at stake.