AMLO and democracy, follow-up

AMLO's increasingly shrill rhetoric against the planned consultation among PRD and PAN members whether to accept an electoral alliance or not, is a clear sign that he is far from sure the alliance will be rejected.
It also exposes AMLO as a man who despite his protestations of listening to "the people," has very little regard for the opinions for the popular will when they contradict his own:

We will not participate (in the consultation) because it is a farce. I have information that Calderón himself is organizing it. Yes, the same who stole the Presidency of the Republic!

He also accused one of the organizations behind the poll (PRD asked impartial external NGOs to arrange so as to avoid any accusations of a fixed vote), Alianza Cìvica, of being tied to PAN, offering no evidence. Also:

"We are not going to participate Why? To make it easy for them? No way. We don't want anymore pretense."

Why participate? Well, AMLO could prove that he really is true to his word in terms of listening to "the people": If the PRD and PAN primary voters want an alliance, or if they don't, he could simply state, "I'll respect whatever the outcome is."

Yet this is not AMLO's modus operandi. Rather, he simply discredits the poll beforehand, to be on the safe side, in case the outcome wouldn't favor him. If it does favor him, it is simply a win-win situation.

There are very legitimate reasons to oppose the alliances, as there are legitimate reasons to back them. One may laud AMLO for his steadfast opposition to them (after 2006, that is), or castigate him. Yet deserving of the label "democrat," he certainly is not.