Electoral & Civil Participation comparison between Finland and Mexico..

I know it’s really easy to compare two different things, in this case a a Finnish Parliament Republic and a Mexican Democratic Republic. I want to talk about the difference in order to understand if the Finnish are doing the things right or we Mexicans are committing any mistake.

First of all, we can star by some history, even though both government systems are different,  the Finnish system became operational and functional since 1906, fur year before a Mexican Revolutionary strike. By 1906, Finish society, the ones who’s could be consider for voting were women and men 24 years old or older, since then, because of demographic changes the minimum age was changes from 24 to 21, from 21 to 20 and from 20 to 18 nowadays.

In Finland, the most important government figure is the Parliament (200 deputies), even though there’s an executive power, a president, the parliament is the most important division of power because it’s the base of all the Finnish power decisions and distributions, so, because of this, population elect the members of the Parliament.

Also, it’s important to mention that, different as in Mexico, there are no majorities preferences of the population for any political party, every Finnish party acquires not more than 30% of population election, creating an electoral competition really tight and competitive.

About the mass media communication, the government or any political party can ask for media support. The Mass media channel can make any kind f preferences on their spaces and there are allowed t make public any preference of political choice, so , as in Mexico, Finnish Mass Media are really important in elections, but this opinions are truly mass media preferences, there are no budget expense on purchasing TV , Radio or printed publicity spots.

Another significant difference between Finland and Mexico, is that authority is independent from the government, although, as any goverment they work together, Government and Law Authority are separated, so Government cannot use public force to manipulate any election results and authority just take actions in case of someone breaking the law, in this case political parties or voters.

Another huge difference is that for the parliament make a decision about something, most f the member has t be aligned with the decision, and Finnish Government cannot take any action if just a minority group is supporting it. The main tool for convincing the majority of the Parliament is through a pacific conciliation.

Finally, I think that one other important difference is that Finnish Rural population has an important deviation from one electoral period to other. This deviation mainly is because Finnish rural economic activities are a minimum part of Finnish Economy, so the decisions taken by government about this topic are strategic for de rural economic development, so, rural population study really close the best government option for them.  If the Mexican rural sector pays more attention in voting for the best party fr rural developing, Mexican economy anf rural growth could have a huge boost. I think that it’s a simple as just take a few minutes t understand each proposal of the main political parties .