They are looking for voting. Features puzzle

In the judicial elections Mexico CityThe law does not force the candidates to publicly publish their proposals, or some electoral platform or their profiles.

There is a Conóceles platform, where they can share the curricula and some of its initiatives since April 14, which are campaigns, but it is not necessary to comply with it.

One of the methods that voters must know the proposals of the candidates for the country’s capital judges is to know the articles they had to hand over to the evaluation committees in Legislative, executive and judicial authorityWhich supported them to be the conditions to be candidates, but they are not public documents.

Experts who have been consulted in this regard consider it very serious that voters are not able to access this information from candidates to determine who will vote.

“If voters are unable to know the positions of the candidates, their judicial principles or interpretations of the law of some matters, the elections become a work of blind confidence,” said Jacob Villagez, a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Unam.

It is like saying: “I will vote when I think it is good, but I do not know him, nor his platform,” the academic reflected.

While political analyst and advisor Fernando your role He said: “We will be subject to the mere speech, meaning that the candidates will say:” I am very good, I am very democratic, “but what does that mean.”

He expressed concern about the fact that, in contrast to the campaigns of the prime minister or mayors, where the citizen has already has prior information about the candidates, because they have already have some general positions, we do not now know about the background of the judge.

In addition, in this type of election, the candidates are committed to registering their electoral platforms, which is “the mechanism that serves voters to obtain sufficient elements to exercise their right to vote in an enlightened manner.” Which does not seem to happen on June 1.

We do not know where they came from, why are they there, the background they have, and those basic conditions in democracy, and the knowledge of who are the candidates, ”said a role.

From their point of view, the situation is more complicated, because those who compete for positions of judges and judges have no experience in politics, campaigns, or in communicating with voters.

People who will just compete to realize that it is about speaking in a political language (…) and needs to learn to negotiate, communicate, and develop other types of campaigns skills, and the skills that do not have now. “

In this context, a consultant IECM Electoral Institute (IECM) Sonia Perez considered it important for candidates to download their approach and proposals to the Conóceles platform, even if it is not obligatory.

The electoral advisor concluded that the fact that it is from the institute we do to the public will give this pattern until (citizens) know who are the people who run and what vision they have.

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