This article examines a Judgment issued by the Sala Superior del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación de la República Mexicana (Superior Court of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation of the Mexican Republic) in relation to the final resolutions issued by the Commission of the Council for Transparency and Access to Information of the Federal Electoral Institute, which denied the requests of mexican citizens to provide them with copies of the "ballots" (or "ballot papers" in the case of Peru) regarding the electoral process because the results of the presidential election caused them to object to the calculation of the votes and required them to count them again.Of course, the academic importance of resolving that demand was not fundamentally to review the outcome of the electoral process but to elucidate the chara...

This article examines a Judgment issued by the Sala Superior del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación de la República Mexicana (Superior Court of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation of the Mexican Republic) in relation to the final resolutions issued by the Commission of the Council for Transparency and Access to Information of the Federal Electoral Institute, which denied the requests of mexican citizens to provide them with copies of the "ballots" (or "ballot papers" in the case of Peru) regarding the electoral process because the results of the presidential election caused them to object to the calculation of the votes and required them to count them again.Of course, the academic importance of resolving that demand was not fundamentally to review the outcome of the electoral process but to elucidate the chara...

Resumen: En el Perú tenemos una ley que establece la cuota para la representación de mujeres en las listas de candidatos a cargos por elección que establece el 30%. Se pretende la paridad, la democracia representativa paritaria que tendría su marco en la igualdad de posiciones y derechos en los poderes públicos, los agentes ambientales, económicos, políticos, jurídicos y sociales. Especialmente en los ciudadanos y ciudadanas quienes otorgarán a la igualdad no solo un valor político, social, jurídico, sino un valor democrático para lo cual es perentorio que las bases partidarias mismas concilien para llegar al acuerdo, al pacto de que es urgente modificar las estructuras del poder para que una de las grandes brechas para tener una distribución real de democracia representativa se supere, ni más hombres, ni más mujeres sino el principio de equilibrio para un real valor democ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical approach to the notion of political counter-narrative. Given the novelty of this narrative technique, its causes are first addressed: moral absolutism, affective polarization, informational chaos, uncertainty, and digital tribalism. Then, the counter-narrative is defined as a semantic structure that, regardless of temporality, seeks to destroy the symbolic capital of the adversary. Subsequently, its main features –reactivity, negativity, emotiveness, stereotyping, and permanence– are detailed, as are its functions –linking wills through opposition, drawing clear identity boundaries, being emotionally rewarding, and simplifying reality–. In closing, a review of the main findings is provided, and various lines of research are proposed, such as observing the resonance and application of this technique by citizens and the possibil...