This was the experience of Venezuela and Bolivia when they applied the revocation of the mandate

In Latin America, the figure of the Revocation or Revocation of Mandate exists in the Constitutions of countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, where it was tested by presidents such as Hugo Chávez, in 2004, and Evo Morales in 2008, with favorable results for both and their political projects.

In 1998, Hugo Chávez ran for the presidency of Venezuela and among his main proposals were the election of a Constituent Assembly and the revocation of the mandate for popularly elected positions.

Finally, on August 15, 2004, in his second presidential term, Hugo Chávez underwent a recall referendum for the Venezuelan people to decide whether to remain or leave.

In this exercise, the president not only remained in office, but also managed to increase the percentage of voting in his favor, because in a context of extreme polarization between Chavistas and anti-Chavistas, the so-called Bolivarian president prevailed with 69% of voters who opted for his continuity.

According to studies published by the Universidad de los Andes, the electoral authorities imposed by the government authorities implemented the process in a different way than the Constitution, and the result was regulations whose biased application contributed to the final outcome favorable to President Chávez.

For social analysts, the main result of this referendum was a society fragmented into two pieces, whose boundaries were drawn mainly from a class logic: The one who was poor was by definition Chavista, because there he hoped for a change for himself or his children. On the other hand, if someone was from the upper class or “rich”, they were antichavista.

In the case of Bolivia, the figure was included in the Constitution in the context of a political and governance crisis faced by President Evo Morales, who sought to extend his power while the opposition accused that he could no longer aspire to a new term.

Amid political doubts and disputes over how it would have to be done, on August 10, 2008, the Bolivian people went to the polls to decide on the continuation of President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera.

As participation was compulsory, 83% of the electorate voted, so that 50% plus 1 of the register was easily exceeded to determine its validity. Thus, Morales was ratified with an overwhelming 67.41% of the vote.

In the case of Mexico, this Sunday, April 10, more than 92 million people who make up the electoral roll are freely called to the polls, and according to the Law on the Revocation of Mandate, at least 40% are required to go to the polls for this democratic exercise to be legally valid and have character binding.

In this way, almost 38 million Mexicans must go to the polls to decide for the revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to remain in office.

According to mathematical calculations, if almost 40 million Mexicans decide to participate in Sunday, it would be necessary for approximately 20 million Mexicans to speak out for the revocation of the President of the Republic due to lack of confidence, which is why the possibility that the current head of the executive is remote Federal loses office.

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