Que El Pueblo Decida / Let the People Have Their Say

C mo un presidente electo democr ticamente termin derribando la idea que ten amos de democracia.

Incluso antes de su arribo al poder en 2018, Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador critic el sistema electoral, las leyes vigentes y los organismos aut nomos constitucionales. V ctima de fraudes y complots --como las pol micas elecciones presidenciales de 2006--, AMLO denost al IFE (luego INE), al TEPJF y a los institutos electorales de los estados. Los critic y los redujo a meros instrumentos de la mafia en el poder, incluso cuando estas instituciones reconocieron su triunfo y los consecuentes triunfos de Morena. Qu efecto tuvo esto en la democracia mexicana?

A trav s de cr nicas precisas, testimonios de primera mano y una investigaci n rigurosa, Ernesto N ez Albarr n --autor de Cr nica de un sexenio fallido y La democracia no se construy en un d a-- documenta, con pulso period stico y mirada cr tica, los momentos clave en los que la llamada Cuarta Transformaci n redefini --y tension -- el significado de la democracia en M xico.

Desde la cancelaci n del aeropuerto de Texcoco hasta la elecci n judicial, pasando por consultas populares, reformas electorales y el asedio al INE, este libro nos da la pauta para entender la situaci n actual de la democracia mexicana de cara a la reforma electoral que se avecina y que, nuevamente, cambiar las reglas del juego democr tico con miras a las pr ximas elecciones.

Que el pueblo decida narra c mo el discurso del "poder del pueblo" se convirti en una herramienta pol tica para concentrar decisiones, debilitar contrapesos y reescribir las reglas del juego democr tico. M s que un alegato a favor o en contra de una reforma, este libro es una invitaci n a entender el presente pol tico de M xico y debatir, con informaci n y memoria hist rica, el futuro de su democracia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

How a democratically elected president ended up destroying our idea of democracy.

Even before coming to power in 2018, Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador criticized the electoral system, existing laws, and autonomous constitutional bodies. A victim of fraud and conspiracies--such as the controversial 2006 presidential elections--AMLO reviled the IFE (later INE), the TEPJF, and state electoral institutes. He criticized them and reduced them to mere instruments of the mafia in power, even when these institutions recognized his victory and the subsequent victories of Morena. What effect did this have on Mexican democracy?

Through accurate chronicles, first-hand testimonies, and rigorous research, Ernesto N ez Albarr n--author of Cr nica de un sexenio fallido (Chronicle of a Failed Six-Year Term) and La democracia no se construy en un d a (Democracy Was Not Built in a Day)--documents, with a journalistic pulse and a critical eye, the key moments in which the so-called Fourth Transformation redefined--and strained--the meaning of democracy in Mexico.

From the cancellation of the Texcoco airport to judicial elections, popular consultations, electoral reforms, and the siege of the INE, this book provides a framework for understanding the current state of Mexican democracy in the face of the upcoming electoral reform that will once again change the rules of the democratic game with a view to the next elections.

Que el pueblo decida (Let the People Have Their Say) recounts how the discourse of the "power of the people" became a political tool to concentrate decisions, weaken checks and balances, and rewrite the rules of the democratic game. More than an argument for or against reform, this book is an invitation to understand Mexico's political present and to debate, with information and historical memory, the future of its democracy.