Something is really going wrong when citizen participation does not exceed the status of an attempt or worse even, a complaint or a regret ... and the government and the party rejoices about the impotence of their voters.
That circumstance that the political elite celebrates as an occasion to make from the rulers a private employment agency; to impose its decisions on a whim or to commit crimes with impunity, predicts a poor outcome. There are the outraged from other parts of the World, that being expelled of all channels of participation, and vetted to influence major decisions, one day, they take the streets , and the next, throw away bad governments , and at the end, neither one finds any understanding measures.
there are fewer secrets in government offices, and therefore, the political elite has to work harder to decide in the darkness . Those Technologies throw light over the ruling class , but still, abuse and error prevail without any punishment.
Thus, citizenship suffers a paradox; even they could transparent corruption or abuse, they can not either correct nor punish it They could show in flagrante delicto., or to denounce in seconds abuses and misdeeds of the political elite, but without any force or organization, his encouragement is thwarted by the complicity of the political class to cover up covert or tolerate its own excesses.. Instead of diminishing, the gap increases between “representatives” and voters,
This contradiction in the citizens field, results in a sense of frustration and powerlessnes, ; in the political elite field, means acts of cynicism and impunity. You only see an exception, as a person who throws a bone to a hungry pack, elite sacrifices one of their own, but not for having committed an act of abuse or corruption, but for indiscipline. Punish indiscipline, but do not discipline abuse or corruption..
Today, abuses and corruption are becoming more transparent ... but nothing more
Commiting abuses of power; impose decisions without consulting citizenship ; steal, divert or squander public resources; act in the public service or in the popular representation, with negligence or cowardice; exploiting public office for personal gain, to turn the administration of justice into a profitable business is a common practice, even when configuring a crime, they are tolerated by the elite, despite the citizens groan.
Examples are plentiful. It does not matter if the head of the parliamentary bloc of one of the ruling parties, charges “a bribe,”to lower the budget recourses ,if it is loyal to the party leader.
If Mexico City’s borough chief (mayor of a borough) receives a bribe, leaving a trace of the wrongdoing , before even to consider being expelled from his party, they assesses his effectiveness as an election operator.
If a governor indebts his state for decades, they only lower his profile sending him to Spain, and enjoy quietly the ill-gotten fortune.
If another parliamentary coordinator turns into a ballroom the Senate; if he only regrets the volume of mariachi, then he retains his senatorial position.
If Monterrey mayor (#PAN) charges a bribe to a casino, but he is ·”a good plumber” in electoral issues, it is better to make him legislator with all immunity.
If the ombudsman is pictured with a drug trafficker, everything works out saying he did not know who he was.
The worst thing of all: In the information age, the corrupt have no qualms in showing how enjoy money stolen form all other citizens.. Politician exhibit cars, jewelry, pets, shopping, wine, and then realizing the mistake, do not hesitate to say victims of "bullying" citizen.
We have a lot of examples , being more frecuent, despite “ the transparency”
It really matter to put on the table, or in a show case this issue, because in these days, $enators and legi$lators will make decisions over “two fundamental organs of democracy”: the appointment of commisioners for the Access to Information Institute and the appointmnet of the electoral advisers who will remain or will be added to the General Council for the new National Electoral Institute , (@INE/ substitute prostituye of @IFEMexico)
If in the process, lawmakers do not hear the citizenship’s voice, they will again waste the opportunity of replacing the credibility of two key Institution of democracy. If the citizen participation is frustrated again and political elite practices the same game of fixed odds between them, do not do it between them and the public, then it is not wortwhile to reform such Institutes
The result will be the same as before: institutions without any legitimacy and credibility; institutions serving only the political elite, leaving aside the citizenship.
If new powers and functions of IFAI suggest, even with the cost derived from the learning curve, to renew entirely all the commissioners, the origin, history and behavior of the current commissioners Gerardo Laveaga, Sigrid Arzt and Maria Elena Perez Jaen and the conflict dynamics displayed by commissioner Angel Trinidad cancel, obviously, the opportunity to see them again in the Institute.
If to the poorly designed restructuring of the National Electoral Institute, is added the the appointment of council members to the satisfaction of the parties, without any consideration towards the citizenship, it will be impposible to square the Electoral Institute. Everyone knows that, despite the clear call to register as a candidate for the direction of the National Election Institute, and regulate the selection procedure, "the central table," new covenant name for `] The Agreement of Mexico” has resolved to allocate seats as follows: four for the PRI four for the PAN, three for the PRD, including the presidency of the Council. Even the names are already written.
If the institutional channels for citizen participation are narrowed even more, If the monopoly of the ruling class is increased, if the politics is further monopolized by the elite, they should not be scared when the outraged occupy all squares
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