The selection of candidates for federal deputies: The case of Tlaxcala during the 2015 electoral process

Abstract

The intention of the article is to realize a comparative analysis of the election process of the choice of the candidacies to federal deputies of the National Regeneration Movement (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional, MORENA), the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional; PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional; PRI) and the Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo; PT) in the state of Tlaxcala, seeking to describe the formality of the choice of candidates according to the partisan rules, as well as the examination of possible conflicts, alliances, commitments, negotiations and agreements happened in the above mentioned process. The framework for discussion of the topic is the still in force exposition on the political Mexican transition and if this has been possible in terms of the internal democracy of the parties, or if it is a question only of an alteration of the political groups and / or political class attending to political practices of old ways. The results of the investigation, obtained through interviews and the study of journalistic data and institutional documents, will help to discuss in a qualitative form with base in the empirical information of the case; up to what point and / or in which way the above mentioned transition has been effective or settled and if it has contributed to Mexican democracy and particularly in the internal work of political parties, independently that from the formality of the elective process, the results indicate the victory of the PRI as a part of elections 2015.