C鏔o un presidente electo democr嫢icamente termin?derribando la idea que ten燰mos de democracia.
Incluso antes de su arribo al poder en 2018,
Andr廥 Manuel L鏕ez Obrador critic?el sistema electoral, las leyes vigentes y los organismos aut鏮omos constitucionales. V獳tima de fraudes y complots --como las pol幦icas elecciones presidenciales de 2006--, AMLO denost?
al IFE (luego INE), al TEPJF y a los institutos electorales de los estados. Los critic?y los redujo a meros instrumentos de la mafia en el poder, incluso cuando estas instituciones reconocieron su triunfo y los consecuentes triunfos de Morena. Qu?efecto tuvo esto en la
democracia mexicana?
A trav廥 de cr鏮icas precisas, testimonios de primera mano y una investigaci鏮 rigurosa,
Ernesto Nez Albarr嫕 --autor de
Cr鏮ica de un sexenio fallido y
La democracia no se construy?en un d燰-- documenta, con pulso period疄tico y mirada cr癃ica, los momentos clave en los que la llamada Cuarta Transformaci鏮 redefini?--y tension?- el significado de la democracia en M憖ico.
Desde la
cancelaci鏮 del aeropuerto de Texcoco hasta la elecci鏮 judicial, pasando por consultas populares, reformas electorales y el asedio al INE, este libro nos da la pauta para entender la situaci鏮 actual de la democracia mexicana de cara a la
reforma electoral que se avecina y que, nuevamente, cambiar?las reglas del juego democr嫢ico con miras a las pr闛imas elecciones.
Que el pueblo decida narra c鏔o el discurso del
"poder del pueblo" se convirti?en una herramienta pol癃ica para concentrar decisiones, debilitar contrapesos y reescribir las reglas del juego democr嫢ico. M嫳 que un alegato a favor o en contra de una reforma, este libro es una invitaci鏮 a entender el
presente pol癃ico de M憖ico y debatir, con informaci鏮 y memoria hist鏎ica, el futuro de su democracia.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
How a democratically elected president ended up destroying our idea of democracy.
Even before coming to power in 2018,
Andr廥 Manuel L鏕ez Obrador criticized the electoral system, existing laws, and autonomous constitutional bodies. A victim of fraud and conspiracies--such as the controversial 2006 presidential elections--AMLO reviled the IFE (later INE), the TEPJF, and state electoral institutes. He criticized them and reduced them to mere instruments of the mafia in power, even when these institutions recognized his victory and the subsequent victories of Morena. What effect did this have on Mexican democracy?
Through accurate chronicles, first-hand testimonies, and rigorous research, Ernesto Nez Albarr嫕--author of
Cr鏮ica de un sexenio fallido (Chronicle of a Failed Six-Year Term) and
La democracia no se construy?en un d燰 (Democracy Was Not Built in a Day)--documents, with a journalistic pulse and a critical eye, the key moments in which the so-called Fourth Transformation redefined--and strained--the meaning of democracy in Mexico.
From the cancellation of the Texcoco airport to judicial elections, popular consultations, electoral reforms, and the siege of the INE, this book provides a framework for understanding the current state of Mexican democracy in the face of the upcoming electoral reform that will once again change the rules of the democratic game with a view to the next elections.
Que el pueblo decida (Let the People Have Their Say) recounts how the discourse of the "power of the people" became a political tool to concentrate decisions, weaken checks and balances, and rewrite the rules of the democratic game. More than an argument for or against reform, this book is an invitation to understand Mexico's political present and to debate, with information and historical memory, the future of its democracy.
