Ex-President Ernesto Zedillo has been very critical of how Andrés Manuel López Obrador ended his administration.
On Tuesday, October 1, former President Ernesto Zedillo recounted the damages that Andrés Manuel López Obrador left in Mexico hours after leaving power; he highlighted the mega-projects, his reforms, and the support and excessive power he gave to the Armed Forces throughout these six years.
Zedillo, who was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, published a column in the newspaper El País, in which he also called on President Claudia Sheinbaum not to continue the Fourth Transformation, as he accused that this project only “destroyed the foundations of Mexican democracy.”
The former Mexican president, who recently returned to the national political scene, said that López Obrador put the independence of the Judiciary at risk with his recent reform, left the electoral bodies vulnerable, and promoted a series of mega-projects without an analysis of the environment and economic impacts.
The former president stressed that despite one of López Obrador’s government policies being republican austerity, the founder of Morena did not hesitate to promote projects such as the Maya Train and the Dos Bocas refinery, which to date have only caused environmental damage and economic losses because they tripled their cost.
Zedillo recalled that in the last weeks of López Obrador’s government, after the legislative process, he signed the decree with which judges, magistrates, and ministers would be elected through popular vote, and in three years, more than one thousand judges would be replaced using this method.
Ernesto Zedillo warned that part of the destruction of institutions that occurred during the six-year term is “the replacement of autonomous electoral authorities by bodies controlled by the party in power that, if necessary, could behave like in Venezuela.”
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