Political analyst Alfredo Figueroa analyzed the recall initiative, stating that it represents a distraction from the country's severe crisis of security and governability, and warned of potential post-electoral conflict scenarios for 2027.
Figueroa contextualized his analysis within what he termed a "turning point" for the country: the assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo. "If this crisis of governability, which is beginning to have chapter after chapter, after chapter, is going to explode in Mexico in 2027".
The analyst described a country facing multiple crisis fronts: "Claudia Sheinbaum has been in office for a year, and the problems of governability that are being observed in Mexico from a set of groups in society are enormously important". "It is an abuse, we must say it. Abuse from all four sides".
Figueroa expressed his concern about the 2027 electoral scenario in the current context of crisis. "One wonders if the path is really leading to a huge post-electoral conflict in 2027".
The analyst pointed out that from the official side, "an enormous effort is being made […] to say again and again, let's talk about other things, and two, to keep insisting on a lie as enormously serious […] as is that intentional homicides are decreasing, when in reality what we are experiencing is a reclassification".
Connection between political power and organized crime
The analyst delved into what he described as an increasingly evident relationship between political power and organized crime. "No longer just, let's say, to maintain agreements with political power, but to become part of political power, financing campaigns, putting governors, in short, everything that... And also, very likely, deciding to eliminate governors who, together with political power, are inconvenient for them".
Regarding the Manzo case, he questioned: "how much of that assassination, how much of that organized crime is linked to local and national political power?".
The recall as a political strategy
Referring specifically to the recall initiative, Figueroa characterized it as a strategy of the ruling party. Furthermore, an alert was raised about the cost of this process, which will require public funds. "If from power what is intended is to build mechanisms to involve all the Mexican state, all state governments, all federal government, in spending, not only what the election is going to cost us, but what they are going to spend on mobilization, on propaganda, etc., etc., etc... A fortune for a country and for institutions that are as hijacked as ours are".
