El voto en el extranjero del migrante internacional y sus repercusiones en los procesos electorales del país

Abstract

Previous to the president election in 2006, the so called vote abroad develop a wide polemic, pro and against. Once approved the laws and respective regulations it was applied in the elections of that year. If the results of this practice were to be qualified, it can settle down that it was a firm failure, because the figures of voters didn’t go over 41 thousand votes. This way, it is probable that the topic is recaptured in the presidential elections of the 2012, mainly by the political parties that see in the Mexican residents in the United States a potential market of votes. Using the results of total population of the country for age, of population and housing’s general census from 2010 –published in April 2011–, the database of the samples of 2010, as well as the estimates for 2008 of 2011 Statistical Abstract elaborated by the office of censuses of the United States, we deal with migration so much it interns as external in the context from the right to the vote granted to the Mexicans resided abroad, right that has been looked for to enlarge a little more; for example, being voted. So we present data of both phenomena and it is looked for to tie them to the electoral processes which are developed regularly in the country, like in the local elections of representatives of popular election to occupy the municipal presidencies, both federal and local deputies, as well as the state minister and therepublic presidency. In the case of the international migration it will be analyzed the flow that resides in the United States, which represents a little bit more than 99% of the total.