The former have yielded a participation of around 13%, well below that collected by the latest surveys. The scarce throughout the day predicted such an outcome, which further questions the electoral reform that has given rise to this election. The thousands of candidates who run to cover 2,681 positions were perfect unknown to the vast majority of voters, which added to the complexity of the more than six ballots that had to be filled has deterred the population, which did not even have the resource to vote for a party without thinking of names. The final results will last up to almost two weeks.
Claudia Sheinbaum, who just a year ago achieved an overwhelming win, has described the choice of “success” and has celebrated the 13 million voters who have participated in it. As in previous days, he recalled that if the government had wanted to put the judges of their preference they would not have let the people decide. Also, in a video issued shortly after the participation data, around midnight, has loaded against the Judiciary that had “favoring organized crime” and “economic crimes.” Today, however, “Mexico is the most democratic country in the world.” In recent days, Sheinbaum gave even a 5% participation in the census: a two -digit figure seems gain.
One of the images of the election day, which has come to vote between the curiosity of journalists and citizens in Chiapas. It was not for less, the ex -president has been out of public life since he delivered power to his successor on October 1, far from the spotlights, oblivious to the cameras, retired in his home from Palenque, where he is dedicated to writing. Since then, an image or statements has not been of him, until this Sunday: “We have the best president in the world,” he said when attending his electoral box. He is good health, he added, and was happy to have the right to choose judges, magistrates and ministers for the first time: “I am very pleased to live in a free and democratic country.”
López Obrador put the first bricks of the judicial reform that Sheinbaum has had to implement, after being approved by the cameras with little time and no political consensus. The comparison between both presidents will be the object of analysis for his mobilizing capacity of the electorate. Sheinbaum, despite his enormous popularity and having won the elections with the most votes and percentage than any other previous president, has failed to drag citizens on this occasion, while López Obrador got 17% participation when he submitted, in the middle of the mandate, to equally unpublished elections to continue or not in power. It was then the famous and controversial Revocative, which was set by law and through which his successor will also have to pass.
The rush to consummate this choice have not helped either. Citizens have not had much time to prepare the vote in a tangled selection among thousands of candidates. The system is unpublished in the world, only in a scarce handful of countries choose the judges by popular vote, but in none of them to those of all instances, as is the case. Just the ruling party, Morena, and its allies have carried out the judicial reform. That is the reason that a good part of those related to opposition parties have followed the slogan of not going to the polls.
The popular election of judges, magistrates and ministers of the Court constitutes the most controversial point of the judicial reform and is possibly the issue of domestic nature that has given more headaches to President Sheinbaum in her eight exact months of mandate. The ruling party has a vast majority and the idyll between the president and the citizenship is still far from going out, but the little participation has watered the morenista party.
The historic election has already been fulfilled, what is about to see is what capacity these new judges will have to combat the greatest defects that afflict Mexican courts, rotten some of corruption, classism and political collusion. Soon the winners will be known for the, an instance very demonstrated by the leaders of Morena for which the only names with some popularity have been postulated. Some of the candidates were already ministers of this Supreme Court and their names sounded a lot among the voters of the capital, for example. It is possible to repeat, now with the popular vote.
To the lack of concurrence at the polls, the opposition parties contributed, who requested abstention in this process, with which they always disagree. They denounced that they were partisan elections and warned the ruling party that it did not fall into the temptation to falsify the participation figures. As soon as the schools close, at six in the afternoon, the leaders of the Conservative National Action Party (PAN) went out to say that or far the participation was going to exceed 10%, that they would not tell them “Chinese stories.” With such little participation, opposition parties could have without difficulty any minister of their preference in the Supreme Court. But they chose to none the choice.
The process can be delegitimized from a political point of view, but the new judges, chosen are, as recognized by the PAN, whose national leader, Jorge Romero, granted everyone the benefit of the doubt and warned them that from now on they will have to demonstrate in the exercise of the position if they are for objectivity and justice or only in favor of power.
On this occasion the vote has been, free, secret and slow, more similar to an exam: people carried the chop with the names and number of each candidate and sat in the boxes to write for a while, about 10 minutes. The count will also take its time. On this day the polls have been shared with the, but in 2027, the second part of the judicial will coincide with the intermediate elections throughout the country, even more complex.
Each and every one of the applicants were subject to a previous cessation if they already exercised again to the position. Except in the Supreme Court, the candidates have not noticed, because the campaigns have been legally limited: everyone has had to look for the vote with very simple acts and suffered with their own money. Hence the controversy over printed or digital ballots that have been filled with candidate names and distributed to guide the vote, something very criticized and what the electoral organ will also have to be pronounced.
The first screening of the applicants, which remained in the hands of the Executive and Legislative Power (the judicial end to depart from the process) has been marked from errors and failures that have allowed the intrusion of bisoños profiles or with a corrupt past in the exercise of their judicial functions. On these challenges, the electoral body will also have to decide to the last bull, he did not give time before the elections, when the ballots were already printed.
The surprises of the election day have been void in some states, given that only the name of a candidate for a single position was validated, annuling the choice exercise: the result was known before opening the polls and making the count. More than chance, the collusion of interests has been strongly criticized to place the person chosen in office without the contest of other applicants.
These elections have been sold by the official party as the most democratic form of selection and the balm against judicial corruption that Mexico ravages, where the impunity of crimes exceeds 90% and there are thousands of innocents in prisons or the waiting of a trial and a sentence. But it is difficult to convince a Mexican that the simple popular vote will end corruption, because it has plenty of evidence, in the political field, otherwise.
The fact that some names of crime -related applicants or undesirable practices have increased distrust in recent weeks. And the criticisms have worsened against the ruling party, since it has been the legislators, of a morenista majority, who have screen the candidates, which suggests that many of them will be docile to the sets of the party. Some analysts have warned that this can come against them as an owl when a judge issues a suspicious sentence, because they will no longer load complaints against the Judiciary, as they had been doing until today, but against those who designed this process.
