Balance of the Election of Mexico 2018 in Comparative Perspective
In the Mexican election of 2018 the president of the Republic, the deputies and senators were elected. In many states, governors, local congresses and municipal governments were also elected. The election was historic because of its size and, above all, because of the result: Andrés Manuel López Obr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Mexicana de Derecho Electoral |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/13817 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-electoral/article/view/13817 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexico 2018 election National Electoral Institute Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch electoral turnout México eleccion 2018 Instituto Nacional Electoral Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación participación electoral |
| Sumario: | In the Mexican election of 2018 the president of the Republic, the deputies and senators were elected. In many states, governors, local congresses and municipal governments were also elected. The election was historic because of its size and, above all, because of the result: Andrés Manuel López Obrador won an absolute majority, a threshold not exceeded in three decades. His coalition won more than half of the congressmen. In contrast, the parties that had, until then, organized the party system, fell to their worst historical averages. The article analyzes the election, specially the operation of the administrative and jurisdictional scheme, which had been reorganized in a profound way by the constitutional reform of 2014. For this purpose, the article focuses on the general framework of the electoral process. Next, study the impact of the general reform of 2014 on the administration and electoral jurisdiction. Then it deals with the facets of electoral turnout, the development of the electoral day and the jurisdictional qualification of the election. The conclusion evaluates the process and outlines the lines of the proposed reforms after the election. |
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