The title sounds too ambitious, not spiro such, in any case this text should be a real study of that topic in our country. The theme is bring up the recent local elections in the state of Veracruz, which was elected governor, Congress and municipalities
In this connection I call attention to the title the book by Norberto Bobbio "The future of democracy [1] " which he defines as a set of rules and procedures to be promoted who is authorized to make collective decisions.
The word democracy derives etymologically from the ancient Greece and its original meaning was "People power" (demo = people, kratos = power), to be precise was coined in the city of Athens where you applied a form of government in which citizens had a major role the authorities directly represent the people with most of them chosen by lot and the rest who were the most important vote is designated by popular acclaim in this way all the people actively involved in key decisions regarding the functioning of the city . Seeing these two definitions Length paint the meaning of democracy, I refer to the meaning assigned to Bobbio. The title of his book "The Future of Democracy", me a question arises, is there a future of democracy in Mexico? federal elections held in 2006, to elect the President of the Republic were the most contested in the history of Mexico, not to mention the context in which they are developed and the subsequent inauguration of winning candidate who had to enter through the back door of the legislative chamber and peaceful social resistance waged by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The recent elections in the State of Veracruz, on July 4 this year, were accompanied by a series of previous remarks , mentioning that the IEV body to carry out a local election was biased in favor of the PRI candidate, there were some actions which it seemed that it was possible to agree with those questioned this, the claim that was exceeded campaign stops, the audio scandal, vote buying, both red and blue team, induced surveys, operations designed to manipulate the will of the electorate, the night before the election and during the same election day was possible to realize the carrying of voters, supposedly invited to a breakfast, others say they came to offer 1500 dollars for his vote, the use and abuse of both federal and state registers of beneficiaries of various programs (welfare) social. As Miguel Angel Yunes, and Duarte say they are winners.
In these terms, the concept of democracy by Bobbio, as the classical concept used in ancient Greece have been exceeded and in this sense is one that applies the question asked " democracy has a future? ". Before attempting to answer, I refer to those reported by Lorenzo Córdoba he does this form of government , Kelsen mentions that addresses the concept of democracy from axiological point of view the concept value of political freedom as the ability to self-determination, which this author is an intrinsic value to humans [2] .
and as someone probably organize the elections and there is (at least) a set of rules to carry out democracy exist, but from my point of view in terms pointed out by Kelsen, we must observe to what extent this concept of freedom of choice has been restricted. Democracy has been prostituted, it is possible to observe a series of actions which seeks preference for a particular candidate, get the vote of a city, ranging from subliminal messages by radio or television until the dirty war either these media or forms, surveys made by way of those who request them, buying votes with cash or in kind, where intimidation and harassment to eliminate the federal or state standards for recipients of social assistance programs, spoofing results theft of ballot boxes, domed agreements between the leaders of political parties, the interference of governments in managing the campaign of a particular candidate (s), system crash be held responsible for storing the results in a Election Day, I am not finding the black thread that exists is possible to appreciate, that happens to us as a society we allow this to happen, it is paradoxical that those who should represent the different levels of government in order to win our sympathy, has to resort to such actions, which is that once they achieve their goal they forget they were elevated to the status of representatives of the people and not act in benefit of this and it happens otherwise represent themselves or representing the group which brought him to power, but if all we know this, because we allow it, we need to stop exercising democracy clearly flawed.
If we continue on this path will have to ask whether Will democracy have a future?, live in a form of government in a sham democracy, the reality today is different from the concepts outlined above. On July 2nd year 2000 even with the aforementioned evils Mexican society succeeded in changing a political system that had been perpetuated in power for a long time in that memorable date to today, we made choices with all these vices, we can see that despite political transition in our country this is far from democratic elections that guarantees freedom of suffrage with the natural consequence that the rulers in turn often lack a large percentage of legitimacy.
If we continue on this path will have to ask whether Will democracy have a future?, live in a form of government in a sham democracy, the reality today is different from the concepts outlined above. On July 2nd year 2000 even with the aforementioned evils Mexican society succeeded in changing a political system that had been perpetuated in power for a long time in that memorable date to today, we made choices with all these vices, we can see that despite political transition in our country this is far from democratic elections that guarantees freedom of suffrage with the natural consequence that the rulers in turn often lack a large percentage of legitimacy.
[1] BOBBIO. Norberto. The Future of Democracy. 2nd ed. Edit. FCE. Mexico City 1996.
[2] VIANELLO CORDOBA, Lorenzo. Law and Power. 1 st ed. Edit. FCE-UNAM.Mèxico.2005.P
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