Why vote null | the Guatemalan Newspaper

The State is co-opted by the mafias. And the system is tailor-made for them. That
means that only the mafias have a real chance of winning an election, because they count
with all the facilities guaranteed by the law that they themselves designed. then even
those groups that have advanced to the formation of a political party and that do not
belong to the mafias, they will have serious difficulties advancing towards victory in that
public confrontation that implies an electoral process.
Let us remember that an election is a process in which a population expresses its predilection
by people whom it considers suitable to represent it in the exercise of popular power.
Some believe in them out of real conviction, but these are very small numbers,
those who are very close, known as roscas or small groups that feel
committed by the promise that they will have a job. Others react out of necessity and
they attend the polls encouraged because they feel compromised by the miserable gifts received
during the campaign and a few others hopeful that they will receive other benefits once their
“favourites” win the election.
The majority, on the other hand, that mass that is disappointed in the political class but
lacks the minimum and most elemental resources to enter the arena and be able to do
something to change the system, he finds himself with his hands and legs tied. even with the mouth
covered to make really effective complaints that make the rest react.
And today, even, with an entire judicial system against them, well, whoever opens their mouths and gets
in sight of these mafias, he automatically becomes a victim of the system and begins to be
victim of unlimited political persecution. Those mafias now even have spokespersons
unofficial statements that announce each step that will be taken against those who consider
system enemies. Because it is no coincidence that they anticipate it, since they are not Nostradamus or
nothing like that. They are simply part of that organization that, although apparently
disintegrated to form the illusion of a democratic game, it is one that plays with the law and the
justice operators in their favor.
Jose Rubén Zamora, Juan Luis Font, Michelle Mendoza, Thelma Aldana, Juan Francisco
Sandoval, Erick Aifán and Miguel Ángel Gálvez are only the most public on this list of opponents
who today pay to try to change the system and give Guatemala a chance
majority. Other journalists and justice operators join that group.

Some may think that the June 25 election is the time to change history and
others try to make us believe it. But it’s not like that. It’s sad to say it and more to admit it, but nothing
will immediately change our current reality. The system is designed so that one more of the
mobsters win the presidency, as many are mayors, others are deputies and so they can
close the circle by choosing cuts and putting their henchmen in middle management.
The very few good ones will not go beyond becoming part of the electoral statistics.
Some will even win more than one seat, but nothing will be enough to put an end to the
bad.
But neither can we be indifferent and not go to the polls, because that makes them
the path is even easier. And voting blank is more serious because we end up supporting
indirectly that imposed system so that they remain eternally in power.
For this reason, I believe that we should try to give the best legislative space to those who
identify us as real opponents of the system. Those who have not formed a government and who have
had rickety benches that do not give them real opportunities to change the situation.
But if it’s about the presidency, I think our best option is to vote NULL. and although
many say that this is also bad, personally I think that it is the best way to
show our dissatisfaction with the system. In the same way, a bad guy will win because
everything is set up for it to happen. So the best thing is that we leave clear evidence of
that whoever wins will govern legally but without legitimacy, that is, without the endorsement of the majority
of the population. That is the power we have at the moment to show our
nonconformity.
That could be a good start, as the next step will be to push for the reform of the
Electoral Law and Political Parties (LEYPP), with which the rules could be restructured to
that we all play in the same conditions and that there really is an opportunity for an election
couple, equitable and without advantages.
Everything else to have a new and better Guatemala for everyone will come in addition.