A woman votes inside a polling station during the presidential elections in Mexico City on July 1st, 2012. Susana Gonzalez/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
Mexico is going through an economic, political, social and international crisis. We have witnessed the rapid depreciation of our currency, the general increase in prices due to the liberalization of oil prices, and now the uncertainty caused by Donald Trump’s accession to the presidency of the United States. Discontent can be felt in the streets and people are denouncing our representatives’ inability to respond to this situation in the social networks.
Much of the discontent is the result of a crisis of representation of the political system that has been brewing for years. In 2015, the Chilean agency Latinobarómetro published the results of a poll showing that 78% of the respondents were not satisfied with the functioning of democracy in Mexico, while 70% disliked the political parties’ performance at their job. Clearly, Mexican citizens are disappointed with a political class that appears to be only taking care of its private interests, over and above the pressing problems affecting the country.
