Mexico: Student Movement #YoSoy132 Protests Election Results
Days after the presidential elections on July 1, supporters and members of the student movement #YoSoy132 continue voicing their concerns over the preliminary results.
They have also vowed to continue their efforts to modify the political agenda and encourage youth participation. Their main demands pointed to transparent and uncorrupted elections in a country where mainstream media shows favoritism for specific political parties.
After voting on July 1, netizens that support the movement started sharing their thoughts, concerns and, in general, feelings of disappointment.
Benedicte Irgens (@Birgens) [es] observed the elections through her Twitter timeline:
Reading tweets about the Mexican election. Most are devastated. Some contain evidence of fraud.
#Fraude2012#Yosoy132
Meanwhile, user EMB (@ErnestoMtzB) [es] shows his concern over the preliminary results:
F**K, está pasando otra vez. Una vez más. No hay que dormir. No podemos dormir. No esta vez, MEXICO. No más.
#YoSoy132.
Members of the movement YoSoy132 march in Mexico City before the elections. Photo by Ivan_Duff Cuevas Hernandez, under copyright by Demotix.
With encouraging words, Pati Peñalosa (@patipenaloza) [es] looks to the future in a positive way:
lloremos juntos. pero después sequémonos juntos. abracémonos. caminemos juntos. trabajemos juntos. iluminemos juntos. SUMEMOS
#YoSoy132
Gina Naya (@GinaNaya) [es] tweets about the movements that might come ahead after the elections:
Porque movimientos como #YoSoy132 seguirán creciendo y habrá otros nuevos de gente que SI desea un cambio verdadero en México…
While Nidia Ortega (@cool_lavy15) [es] says the movement is not giving up:
rendirnos jamas
#YoSoy132
However, not all Mexican youth are supporting #YoSoy132 and the movement's reactions to the election; some netizens doubt the movement's real impact.
Julián Pavón (@jpavon86) [es] expressed his discontent with students from the movement, asking them to study instead of showing public discontent with protests:
Los de
#YoSoy132 dejénse de marchas y ponganse a estudiar, acepten el resultado como buenos ciudadanos si creen en la autoridad electoral
Another Twitter user, Javier Novoa Cantaño (@JaviStitch) [es], suggested that youth from the movement find a better strategy:
marchas? mas marchas? no!… a ver leanse ‘Rules for Radicals’ de Saul Alinsky y aprendan qué debemos hacer los proximos 6 años…
#YoSoy132
Less that 24 hours after the elections, youth from the movement gathered in the Estela de Luz monument in Mexico City, marching and asking for a new vote count due to the suspicion of electoral fraud [es]. Twitter user Dalila Andriano (@dtadriano) shared the following picture of the demonstration:
Photo of demonstration shared on Twitter by user Dalila Andriano (@dtandriano)
Many also shared citizen videos of the march, like user jiboles100:
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