2023-09-16 07:05:00
The appearance in the Judiciary Council of Wilman Terán, a gruff individual, with a quarrelsome and shouting air, the prototype of the lively populist, should have already alerted the other powers of the State, but everyone stayed still because it was not with them; apparently. The colorful character created a scandal with the budget, then toured the country offering salaries, offices and personnel and later put all the judges in suspense, including the magistrates of the National Court of Justice.
With two votes and a half of audacity, he dismissed judges, extended the terms of his allies and finally went through all the media challenging the Attorney General, the National Court, the Government, logic and decorum. Acting with the recklessness of which he feels protected, he fulfills a script that national naivety has not yet seen.
Correismo has served its interests in the Judiciary Council, in the Citizen Participation Council, in the National Electoral Council, it has a majority in the National Assembly, it will manage Justice and will soon have another colorful one in the Comptroller’s Office. This is how a State is controlled, according to one of the henchmen of the Bolivarians of Venezuela wrote.
The right is calm because their candidate “is going to win”; Populism does not need to win, perhaps it is not even convenient for it. If the right-wing candidate wins, and he finds himself cornered by all powers, what will he do? confront Correismo and embody another weak, inefficient, harassed, unpopular government? Or he will turn around and point out his followers as enemies, ally himself with Correism and pay the price for his liberation.
Getting to power is the objective of politics, does it no longer matter if it is with the right or the left, with Correism or anti-Correism, with statism or with liberalism? All the democracy manuals, such as that of Levitzky and Ziblatt, say that by controlling the institutions you control the States and that is how democracies die.
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