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GALAN MARTINEZ, Rodrigo Edmundo. The re-election and the illusion of accountability in Mexico. Derecho glob. Estud. sobre derecho justicia [online]. 2019, vol.4, n.11, pp.91-115.  Epub 07-Out-2020. ISSN 2448-5136.  https://doi.org/10.32870/dgedj.v0i11.220.

The intention of this article is to analyze the viability of the consecutive re-election of legislators and members of the municipalities, as a mechanism of accountability in charge of the citizenship. In it, it is explained that the regulation of re-election in the Constitution and the recent interpretation of the Tribunals have transferred the control of citizens over popular representatives to political parties, because they will decide who will be nominated again. This document tries to show that this is contrary to the theoretical purpose of re-election, which consists of bringing the rulers closer to the citizens so that their demands are taken into account and because of the risk of not being reelected. Finally, it is concluded that, as long as the nomination of the representatives for their re-election is not guaranteed, this figure will hardly be a mechanism for accountability.

Palavras-chave : democracy; political parties; citizen control; party discipline.