La razón pública de las candidaturas independientes en Jalisco

Abstract

At the moment, the issue of independent candidacies is one of the most important but weakened in the political life of Mexico. Its transcendence in the constitutional reform of 2014, since the disappearance in the Electoral Law of 1946, is indisputable. Participation in the active vote through that figure during the last electoral process 2014-2015, where a total of 118 independent candidates participated at both the federal and local levels, and from which only 6 were elected, resulted in an advance in participatory social democracy. Jalisco was precisely one of the states where an independent candidate obtained the victory in the local congress, which could show the behavior and the political culture that the independent candidacies exercise in the entity. However, the idea of a democratic society entails the justification that citizens exercise their political electoral rights - vote and be voted - from a public reason by which they exercise their political power. In the end, the latter will be the objective of the study, the analysis of public reason as part of a new political culture, which emerges from the exercise of the Independent local congressman, Pedro Kumamoto since his election, which will identify the challenges that the Respect it is facing and that will be replicated in the subsequent independent candidacies that appear.