AMLO reacts to The Economist’s democracy index that puts Mexico as a “hybrid regime”

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reacted after it was reported in recent days that Mexico it fell in the Democracy Index of The Economist magazine, which classified the country in the category of “hybrid regimes”, one step less than that of “authoritarian regimes”.

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According to the British publication, in the Index corresponding to 2021, Mexico was ranked 86th, out of a total of 167 analyzed, with a rating of 5.57, out of a total of 10.

“The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, continued his efforts to concentrate power in the executive branch. In August, López Obrador said that he would seek a total reform of the country’s electoral authorities, considering that they are biased against his government, and said that they are “at the service of anti-democracy,” the magazine said in its analysis of the Mexican situation.

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In his morning conference this Wednesday at the National Palace, López Obrador said that the magazine indicated that “in Mexico there is no democracy now.” “In other words, there was more democracy with Calderón and Peña than now. Imagine when the Presidency was stolen from us there was more democracy than now, but it also does not say, and it is a supposedly serious magazine, The Economist.

“And it does not say that there is a supposedly independent Electoral Institute; No, it’s the President’s fault. They were? Do I have to do with the Electoral Institute? ”, López Obrador said, stating that he has never seen Lorenzo Córdova, president counselor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), more than just on two isolated occasions.

“However, the magazine says that there is no democracy, but that is my fault,” he said, pointing to a campaign by Mexico’s conservatism with the interests of the media.

López Obrador accused that there are journalists who defend the INE and not control of the budget “because they serve them very well.”

Mexico falls in The Economist’s Democracy Index; qualifies it as a “hybrid regime”

Mexico fell in the Democracy Index of The Economist magazinewhich classified it in the category of “hybrid regimes”, one step less than that of “authoritarian regimes”.

In the Index corresponding to 2021, released this Wednesday, The Economist places Mexico in 86th place, out of a total of 167 analyzed, with a rating of 5.57, out of a total of 10.

“The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, continued his efforts to concentrate power in the executive branch. In August, López Obrador said that he would seek a total reform of the country’s electoral authorities, considering that they are biased against his government, and said that they are “at the service of anti-democracy,” the magazine said in its analysis of the Mexican situation.

The British media noted that the president “increased his attacks against the media and has become increasingly intolerant of his critics, including allies. High levels of cartel violence impacted the midterm elections in June and posed growing risks to Mexican democracy.

Although López Obrador maintains high approval levels, The Economist highlights that Mexicans express low levels of trust in the government. “The categorization of Mexico as a ‘hybrid regime’ rather than ‘poor democracy’, along with the trends noted, suggest that further erosion of democracy in Mexico is likely as the 2024 elections approach.

The country is thus located at the same level as Bangladesh, Ecuador, Paraguay, Senegal, Tunisia and Ukraine.

A hybrid regime means that the country has features that prevent it from being considered as a democracy (even if it is deficient, the rank in which Mexico had been located in recent years), but neither as an autocracy.

The Economist uses five categories to rate democracy in the countries evaluated: electoral process and pluralism; government performance; political participation; political culture and civil liberties. Depending on the rating, a country can be considered a full democracy, a poor democracy, a hybrid regime, or an autocracy.

The magazine found that democracy fell globally, from 5.37% in 2020, to 5.28% in 2021, the largest annual decline since at least 2010. Only 21 of the 167 countries evaluated. Only 47 countries registered improvements and countries like Chile or Spain fell to the level of deficient democracies.

More than a third of the world’s population lives under autocratic regimes, a category that includes countries like China, Libya, Afghanistan or Venezuela and Cuba.

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Source: Elcomercio

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