Proceso: Mexico's 'Democracy' Has an Emperor - Voter Abstention Proceso
go to original July 8, 2013

Voters in dozens of Mexican states were going to the polls in local elections on Sunday. Many were unhappy with the choice of candidates that were available to them to vote on, to the extent that some people even supported alternative four-legged options. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reported from Mexico City. (AlJazeeraEnglish)

Today the emperor over Mexican democracy was abstention.

“It’s not a coincidence that abstention is the winner today. We feel that people haven’t gone to vote because of the process involved in the elections. People were disappointed by the politicians, then by the parties and finally by the government,” admitted Felipe Ruanova, the candidate for the Citizens’ Movement for the governorship of Baja California.

It was difficult not to be disillusioned. Hopelessness has played a role in these elections for three months. In April, the National Action Party (PAN) announced that the government of Veracruz and the Secretariat of Social Development were angling to divert federal resources to local elections.

From there everything became dirty war and brutal violence: murders, kidnappings, espionage, threats, accusations, robberies, and rampant corruption.

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