In a commentary in Hoy newspaper on Saturday, Fabio Herrera-Minino highlighted that a recent spate of inaugurations has turned President Mejia into a stranger at the Presidential Palace. ?He only goes there to hear how tax collections are going, what the rigging of telephones has brought in or to plot mischief with his campaign team, concerned with the low levels of popular support. And it has been necessary to go around with buses full of people to transfer them from one launch to another in a phony display of mass support, while the streets of the towns through which the caravan passes are deserted or the citizens are indifferent to Presidential loyalists,? he writes.
?Undoubtedly, we are standing before a cascade of inaugurations intended to make an impact on a people that has been impoverished and for whom the cost of basic services have increased, such as the power service. But those issues, while of urgent priority to the population, as is the depreciating peso, are not mentioned in the campaign, not even to suggest solutions, and the government continues to instead blame its predecessors for the inflation that is beyond 40%, and the sufferings of the middle classes now immersed in poverty.?