Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, January 6, 2025, p. 7
Of the 40 percent of Mexicans who did not vote in the presidential election process in June last year, four out of 10 admitted that they did not go to the polls because they did not care, while 23 percent indicated that they did not exercise this right because they did not have information on the proposals, reveals a survey carried out by UNAM at the request of the National Electoral Institute (INE) itself.
In relation to these figures, sources from the electoral body predict that the level of participation will be even lower in the next elections of the Judicial Branch, since being an unprecedented process there are citizens who are not aware of its implementation, so the The dissemination that the institute will undertake will represent a challenge to overcome misinformation.
According to the electoral body’s survey, which carried out quantitative and qualitative research on the relevance, effectiveness and reminder of the main messages of the institutional campaign of last year’s process, 22 percent of people who did not vote indicated that they It was because they did not have a credential.
When asked what was the main reason why they did not vote in the last elections, 38 percent responded that he didn’t care
and 23 percent said They had no information about the proposals
. Meanwhile, 6 percent confessed that they did not know the candidates, 3 percent did not know where to vote and one percent commented that they did not know that there were elections, a figure that is equivalent to one million Mexicans of the 100 million that make up the registry.
On the contrary, of the 60 percent of people who did vote on June 2, 31 percent responded that the reason they did so was to support a candidate, while 30 percent exercised their vote to fulfill their civic duty, although 9 percent confessed that they went to the polls under circumstances of coercion and purchase of the vote, of which 6 percent indicated that they were led to vote, 2 percent that it was to obtain a specific benefit in exchange for their votes and one percent voted because family or friends asked them to.
