Putin's Somersault

Putin's Somersault

By: Erreh Svaia

The Cranioscope

As Moisés Naim affirmed in his book The End of Power; today, it is easier and faster than ever to come to power, as we saw in Mexico with the triumph of Morena in the 2018 presidential elections, with just a few years of being formed as a political party, it has become more difficult to try to keep it , so we have seen the "new PRI" of former President Enrique Peña, sinking forever in just six years, so we have seen a Lula Da Silva lose the opportunity to return to power, after an elaborate succession and return plan, the escape by Rafael Correa in Ecuador, heading to Europe, and the fall of Evo Morales in Bolivia, after a new attempt to re-elect, however, the Russian "neo tsar" Vladimir Putin, one of the first authoritarian nationalist-populist rulers of recent times, He seems determined to find new ways to stand firm in command of Russia, despite having exhausted the constitutional formulas of continuing as president, always willing to give "lessons" to his club of authoritarian followers globally.

In what seems to indicate the following gambit to conserve power, the Russian government as a whole presents its resignation, while Vladimir Putin presents a series of modifications to the Constitution aimed at reducing the power of whoever is the next president to succeed him, in this way, Putin "weakens" the dome of power while restructuring in his favor, focusing power on the figure of the prime minister and that of parliament, which could remind us how the old PRI with former President Ernesto Zedillo, destroyed the figure of the "imperial presidency" when it became clear that power could not be sustained, close to the year 2000, transferring power to the governors in order to find in them a strategy to return, perhaps Putin's intention is not to transfer the power to another person, but to reduce the power of the future president, as well as to limit his ability to stay in power, while that he assumes a position again as prime minister, with greater powers, or move to Parliament and from there continue as the power behind the shadows.

In what seems like a continuation on the path of “Putinism” with a view to continuing to pervert visible elements of the West, such as Christian values, freedom, and democracy, it seems that now Putin is looking to create a position of powerful prime minister in a Grotesque version of Angela Merkel's administration in Germany, in order to convert the figure of president to a merely ornate position, and aspire to remain so in power for another two decades, claiming to remain there "thanks" to the "will" of a Parliament, which he will obviously control, thus allows us to see, that his intention is to continue leading Russia by consolidating more and more power, sending worrisome lessons to the authoritarian figures who today, seek strategies to avoid losing power, Could it be that in Mexico, President López seeks the creation of a similar figure to which to move once his six-year term as president is over entity? We have seen how Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has become a kind of "super secretary", almost a kind of vice president or prime minister, and that later his position could be made official as a second figure of power to the president, who in six years I asked him to allow Lopez to exchange his position and become the power behind the scenes.

The lessons of "Putinism" are unfortunate, but they have gained popularity in the current era that we live, being closely watched and followed as recipes by despots who seek to stay in power at all costs, knowing that the path of violence would put them in a deplorable situation like that of Venezuela or that lived by Evo Morales, creating acolytes even in the Mexican government, in which we see the effects of this current shared by populist nationalism, the perversion of democracy, the persecution of autonomous institutions , the imposition of official figures to weaken opposition governors, harassment in social networks, official propaganda, false "Christian freedom", the limitation of businessmen and information media, as well as the use of so-called "alternative events "," Fake news "or the famous" other data ", and the possible" balkanization "of the Internet, which seems to be another aspect not very far away in "Putinism."