Pedro Kumamoto. (Photo: Cuartoscuro). All rights reserved. This article is a product of the partnership between SinEmbargo and democraciaAbierta. Read the original text here.
"We are in the worst of all possible worlds: we are giving away a lot of resources, the parties do not represent us, people do not participate and they tell us that we must keep things as they stand. I think that's not right." Thus speaks Pedro Kumamoto, a member of the Wikipolítica movement, the first independent deputy to win an election for a seat in the Congress of the State of Jalisco, with more votes than any political party.
But in San Lázaro Palace in Mexico City, home of the Mexican Congress, the project is being stopped by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its allies. The PRI Whip, César Camacho Quiroz, claims that his party has its own proposal which would generate greater savings in public money. To Kumamoto, however, this is only pretend play and challenges him to stop offering “word tacos” and to put forward his proposal.
