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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Autor: Romero Ballivián, Salvador
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
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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.