Sunday’s “consulta”… even with its confused wording that only opened the POSSIBILITY of maybe, possibly, digging into the darker secrets of the past 30 years…. passed overwhelmingly (by close to 95%) but… as mentioned yesterday, the turnout was dismally low, 7% of the electorate, when at least a 40% turnout was required for the consulta to be bindig on the legislature.
That was by design, writes Jornada’s Enrique Galván Ochoa. Under legislation passed during the Peña Nieto administration (and Peña Nieto being one of the primary targets of this consulta), to even send a question to the voters requires either support of the President and a third of Congress, or a petition signed by two percent of registered voters (which, in Mexico, is basically every citizen over 18)… meaning gathering signatures from around two millio people. And, even then, the actual mechanics of the consulta are in the hands of the (politically appointed) Elections Commission, which sets the
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