President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has specialized in giving reports on the state of his administration, practically every day, so the third official report is just one more, of course with a more elaborate production, than the rest of the reports. that he has given since he won the election in 2018. On this occasion, the report is preceded by various events that seem relevant, to understand the second part of his term that began practically after the 2021 midterm election.
What did the President of the Republic report? In general, nothing that he had not said in the previous days, although he took the time to highlight economic “achievements”, such as the increase in remittances that come from abroad, which in themselves would reflect more the failure of an administration than its success. ; as well as the strength of the Mexican peso and the increase in international reserves, which do not reflect the actions of an administration, but are the result of the behavior of international variables, as well as the decisions of the Bank of Mexico, among other aspects.
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What the president has sought to do is frame the speech he gives every day, around supposed achievements that are becoming truths, which serve as the basis for articulating the narrative of the transformation that has been proposed for this administration. In the context of a discourse with nationalist bases that are a reference for some generations in Mexico, such as self-sufficiency, the market controlled by the State, the generation of infrastructure with public financing, the rejection of the private, the opposition to the United States, etc., these elements are articulated on a daily basis to move the nationalist emotion on which the project of this administration rests.
When we review the fulfillment of the most relevant presidential promises, we see that the results are not so presumed, as in the security issue or the cases of corruption that have been aired around people linked to this administration, but on those who are not. Accusations have been initiated and, on the contrary, several of them have been exonerated. Gasoline prices are artificially stable due to the movement of taxes associated with them, while electricity is more expensive in its production, closing the way to the generation of clean energy, in which we have already lagged behind as a country. . What to say about the unsold presidential plane or other presidential symbols that absorb most of the resources.
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There are aspects that are not part of the report but that should be included, such as the state of the public administration as such. The impoverishment of the public service has generated various operating conflicts, and even legality, which have impacted the agencies in meeting their goals, with the exception of those that concern the president. The modernization processes of public structures and services have been affected by the lack of resources to influence their professionalization and continuous improvement.
To a large extent, this third report repeats what has already been said in previous reports, making the context more relevant. The change in the secretariat of the interior, the non-resignation of the legal adviser to the presidency, the struggle for the presidential succession within Morena, the reconfiguration of power relations within the congress but, above all, the hardening of positions of the president with respect to his opponents and his allies. The leaks on possible accusations against Enrique Peña Nieto, those that have been generated against Ricardo Anaya and others that have been mentioned in recent weeks, reveal the use of a tool that eliminates opposition spaces. This leads us to the question of whether the president is feeling that he is losing power, in a context where the opposition and his allies in congress force him to negotiate, where the confrontation over the succession intensifies and threatens to get out of control.
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