Do you already know who you will vote for in the new convocation of the Assembly? Yes, it must be reconstituted in the elections of the coming August 20; and, given the circumstances of cacicazgo and voting on the board that will be repeated at the polling stations, it is most likely that the new legislative body will once again surprise the state with its actions and decisions before the end of the year.

Is there a way to change that? Not this time, because the election rules and the method of distribution of mandates are the same as in the 2021 elections, which resulted in that Assembly being dissolved by the death of President Las, with the explanation that “they did not let them rule”.

Would you like to change this selection method? I strongly doubt that political parties and movements want to do this; unthinkable for August 2023, because ironing in different constituencies makes it easier for them to install a well-known character and push for him to get as many mandates as possible, which could then also mean the bench, which alone, or with allies and unrelated on the same day of the legislative beginning, give caudillu the majority with which he raises lawsuits, funds, approves laws, strengthens the good and bad reforms of the president, if he is from his own nest, or inhibits another who does not receive direct orders, until he is subdued.

With things like this in this snap election, where, as registration closes, all eyes are on the various presidential candidates, with their guns, multiple degrees and endearing loyalties at the helm, it seems inevitable that fate is marking with neon lights. “repetition”, which should no longer surprise us, because it corresponds to the decisions we made by voting in a series of reforms that were approved with applause from Montecristi in 2008, when the country decided to repeatedly give a blank check to the trend that the completed works promised for “one hundred years” or the multiple “definitive” rehabilitation works that we have seen falter in the winter like this current one, which according to science is just an announcement for the upcoming, that of the new El Niño phenomenon.

Many of these issues have been widely debated at least in the democratic period since 1979.

After all this, I think for the umpteenth time: are we really more victims than beneficiaries of democracy? Or has our democracy, infected with scumbags and party owners, bound us to underdevelopment and continue to look for a messiah, every four years or less, as is the case now? Does it still make sense to talk about free elections, but with the obligation to vote? And then, is it the realm of the majority – forced to vote only for a “piece of paper” – to which those of us who see further and think of a better country for our children must submit?

Many of these issues have been widely debated, at least in the democratic period since 1979. They appear again and again every time there are general, presidential and legislative elections, especially. It is painful that they are still there without making deep decisions. I leave them there, to fight together to change their dreams. Because only the one who gives up loses. (OR)