Transformação em fragmentos. As eleições intermediárias no México (2021)

Abstract

The central coordinates that characterized the political process in the context of a disputed and debated Mexico are addressed. From the controversy over the balance of the results of these elections, centered around who were the winners and who lost public office. The obvious causes of the fragmentation of the vote are analyzed. It points to the epochal crisis of credibility and participation that institutions are going through, political parties in particular, a phenomenon shared in the region and throughout the world. It also analyzes the factors that point to point out that the exercise of politics in the process known as the Fourth Transformation (4T) is still carried out excessively vertically, especially by dimensioning the dominant figure of its main leader and president of the country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The conditions in which the ruling party was left after the intermediate elections are also assessed, contemplating a certain decrease in internal cohesion and the abandonment of groups of militants, taking the 2024 presidential elections as a parameter for the future. questions to what extent the process of building hegemony is a central objective of the 4T, which at the same time can transcend not only the next electoral appointment, but the challenge of becoming the axis of an entire political era affirmed from the obradorismo born to government in 2018.