With presidential elections in 2024, next year is defining for the actors who want to participate in the elections, and today I would like to put the magnifying glass on the independent candidacies and what they can represent for our country.
Within the traditional parties, the parade of applicants has already begun. The PRI militants have been the last to raise their hands, as has been done previously in Morena. If so far you haven’t been thrilled with what you see, I don’t blame you.
But what would happen if civil society also uncovered options with serious intentions of being on the ballot by 2024. And I’m not talking about “independent” candidates like in 2018 when people born within traditional political structures ran. but of professional citizens, businessmen, merchants who want to take action to have a better country.
What would be the implications of having an independent character, as a presidential candidate in 2024? I think capital letters. First of all, people could get their hands on a real change option, not a simple party change as has happened in the last 20 years, and that idea alone is exciting.
Secondly, the ideas and proposals would gain prominence in the political debate. An independent candidate, with a successful professional career, cannot be accused of being part of the “past”, of the traditional parties, or of the “conservatives”. That discourse loses its footing, and ideas and proposals gain relevance.
In the debate of the proposals and ideas, the Morena candidate, as the government party, would be obliged to render accounts of the management and would not have the weapon of resorting to past efforts to defend themselves. In other words, the shortcomings of the current administration would be laid bare.
While beyond Morena, the implications of an independent candidacy for the traditional political system, especially the opposition parties (PRI, PAN, PRD, MC). At the moment when society sees a person with clear ideas and proposals, a new face without the contamination of traditional politics is a real option that they have in their hands to guide the destiny of the country, they will wonder with more reason ” Why do we continue spending 6 billion pesos a year on a gigantic structure that does not represent us?
For the traditional parties, it would be a wake-up call to build real leadership, real options that can represent all Mexicans, each from their political ideology. Today 60% of Mexicans do not feel represented by political parties; surely they see themselves more in the mirror of a successful professional, one who, like them, gets up every day to build a better country.
After the World Cup goals, perhaps a truly independent candidate is something that will excite Mexicans in 2023.