The battle for Los Pinos escalates

The battle for Los Pinos escalates

The battle for the presidential throne escalates. Today, the presidential candidates get to the second debate with a casualty: Margarita Zavala . Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) , of the coalition “Together We'll Make History”, has flat-out refused to rehearse; José Antonio Meade , of the “All for Mexico” coalition, thinks he's going to “kick ass” because he masters all the topics to be discussed, according to our sources. Meanwhile, Ricardo Anaya of the “For Mexico to the Front” coalition showed images of himself hitting a boxing pear – and who knows what he meant by that. As for the independent candidate J aime Rodríguez (El Bronco) , he took a tour around the Autonomous University of Baja California to get himself acquainted with the battlegrounds. What's true is that as July 1st comes closer, the war drums get louder and Tijuana will be, without a doubt, the prelude to a new battle.

Are the votes for Margarita wasted?

By the way, the decision of the National Electoral Institute ( INE ) of not reissuing the presidential ballots despite the resignation of Margarita Zavala tells us that any citizen who votes for her next July 1st will be voting for an unregistered candidate and thus, their vote will count for naught. Our sources detail that the resignation of the candidate is not a vote transfer – given that the law prohibits a candidate from transferring their votes to another. That is, if someone crosses the box with Margarita Zavala's name, their vote will be considered null and void. But this forces the questions: are the votes for Margarita Zavala truly wasted? Who is the candidate who'll get to pick up these votes? Because, without a doubt, someone will take them.

Victims of election campaigns

The electoral contest has reduced the Senate to the role of a dietician for Senators and the headquarters of the Permanent Commission, to the extent they have even forgotten to go the meetings of the commissions they do belong to – and which should be called every month. The excuse of the campaigns is valid for their non-attendance to scheduled events, announced on behalf of the senators, to which, showing a lack of respect for their audience, they send some assistant with the apologies of the boss who, as usual, had a “scheduling conflict”…

The Congress and its own informal market

The Upper and Lower Chambers are busy dismantling the army of independent collaborators charging professional fees, that is, the employees at the service of the 618 legislators who only had access to a monthly wage with no benefits, which makes them part of the informal labor market as they do not have access to either seniority or benefits for their retirement. We're told that it's here where they should practice an amnesty to recognize the years and decades of informal employment at institutions...

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