A few days after the unprecedented judicial election of June 1, citizens are emerging to vote for their judges and magistrates without having much information or knowledge about the process and the candidates, in a day in which the polls estimate 15% of the electorate participation.
In the center of the Mexican capital, in front of one of the courts where he has been working for 20 years, Héctor Fernando Ramírez cleans the shoes of those who are called at the polls this Sunday to renew 881 federal charges of among almost 3,500 candidates.
The 64 -year -old bolero, on the other hand, has already made the decision not to vote because he does not have “who” for doing so, and although he knows that it is his citizen obligation, he considers that this election is a “waste of time.”
“I say that instead of being throwing so much money in those votes, they should better worry more about the people, and I believe that the people would appreciate it more than you were a public dependence, those who do not have insurance (doctor), and they would give them the medication well, but hey, so it touched us and neither way,” said the original of Nezahualcóyotl, in the state of Mexico.
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The most recent surveys anticipate a participation of between 8 % and 23 % of the electorate composed of almost 100 million Mexicans, who are called to participate in the election whose budget assigned to the National Electoral Institute (INE) exceeds 2,400 million pesos.
For Víctor Hugo Buendía, 25 -year -old lawyer, the biggest challenge of these elections is the complexity of the tickets and the low information available to citizens, especially in rural areas, where access to the profiles of the applicants is even more limited.
“One can be put to investigate and everything, but for the citizen on foot there is not enough information so that he can issue a suffrage,” said the resident of Chiautla, also in the State of Mexico.
However, he was optimistic with the renewal of the Judiciary to be able to demand “accounts” to the new judges and claimed to be clear about their vote in the six federal tickets, but acknowledged that it has not yet been informed about local candidates to renew in their district.
According to a survey of the Konrad Adenauer and Parametry Foundation, 77% of Mexicans do not know any of the candidates that appear on the ballots, and 68% do not know how to distinguish between a judge, a magistrate and a minister.
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Hurry and nonconformity
A few steps from the Supreme Court in Mexico City, a group of citizens deliver lists with the data of nine candidates for ministers, entitled “My little accordion to advance the ‘Fourth Transformation’”.
Omar Eduardo, seller of tourist services in the capital, acknowledged that this type of “citizen” guides and suggestions is the only information that has come to the process, however, he confessed that he will probably annul his vote because he does not finish understanding this election.
Some streets later, Flor, a 34 -year -old teacher, shared that she has decided not to vote as a “demonstration of disagreement” before the judicial reform he considered was carried out with a hurry, without taking into account several factors.
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“I think you have to make a reform, but better raised, with more time. I did not understand what the careers were to do so. So, (your decision) is a demonstration. I have always voted, but this time I do not agree,” he warned.
This Sunday, Mexico will renew almost half of the Judiciary in an unprecedented election, in the midst of a climate of tension that will be marked by protests convened by the opposition against the process.
With EFE information
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