The great challenge in the campaign is to reduce misinformation, says a contender
Fabiola Martínez
La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, April 13, 2025, p. 6
With a small package of flyers printed on biodegradable and recycled paper, as marked by the rule of the judicial election, a lawyer advances from table at table in a fonda to ask diners to know their profile. She is a candidate for the Labor District Judge and what she has found is that most citizens, in the best case, know that there will be a vote, but have no idea of the process or what will be chosen.
Dressed in yellow blouse, color of the district judges ballot, he said that the popular vote is the only way to achieve his dream, because the selection or contest processes were irregular or of doubtful truthfulness, even when in his function (instructor secretary of a court) the ranks and experience had to open that opportunity. There were 100 percent criminalist judges that chance were in the spaces of labor matters
he said.
However, the campaign has been difficult Not only because we cannot use a microphone or a temple, but because people are not informed. Here the lords have just asked me what party I postulate
.
The absence of information refers to the fact that for this unpublished process there was no public financing, unlike the elections of the Executive and Legislative powers, dominated by parties that do have millionaire prerogatives.
Applicants to any of the 881 positions in dispute on Sunday June 1 can only use own resources, with a limit established by the INE up to 1.4 million for national candidacies and 220 thousand 326 pesos for the slightest hierarchy, in this case, the district.
Restrictions
Other substantive differences with ordinary elections are the restrictions for proselytism, because basically they can only distribute printed propaganda and use their social networks, without paying in any case for the preferential reproduction of messages.
The interviewee, Miriam Torres, spent from her pocket more than 6,800 pesos in the printing of 5,000 flyers, whose invoice had to be admitted to the INE system in real time or at most in the following three days. The lack of delivery of campaign reports could cause the loss of the candidacy. Nor were they authorized to admit donations or rely on a voluntary team.
He has three competitors in his specialty and district, and so far he has not encountered any, which encourages it to continue with the contact in territory. The great challenge is not the rejection of citizenship, but misinformation, so it invites people to vote agree or not
With judicial reform.
