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Jesús Tovar Mendoza, president of the Mexican Association of Political Sciences (AMECIP), pointed out that given the political context that is observed worldwide, it is necessary to consolidate in the instruments for the defense of human rights and create new mechanisms for the promotion of democracy. in Mexico, where he highlighted the TEPJF and the INE as guarantors in the defense of citizen guarantees.
The electoral adviser of the INE, Uuc-Kib Espadas, considered it necessary to look at what the process of building democracy was, in order to overcome the global recession of this system of government and conceive it more broadly.
Moisés Bates Aguilar, President of the Yucatan Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute, said that in the midst of the debate on the functioning of the democratic system, in Mexico there must be objective information that allows authorities and society a better opinion on the work of the electoral system. Mexican.
In turn, Carlos Sauri, director of the Universidad Modelo, Campus Mérida, hoped that it would be through politics the way to propose solutions for a better world.
The director of Latinobarómetro, Marta Lagos, gave the conference “The advance of liberties, democracies and their reaction”, where she highlighted that Latin America is experiencing a situation of change of era in which great opportunities are opening up, but also threats such as the manipulation of public opinion through polls.
