Election for Neighborhood Committees 1999

With the approval of the Citizen participation Law for the Federal District by the Legislative Assembly, on November 26 of 1998, the instruments of citizen participation and the organizations of neighborhood representation that the citizens of the Federal District will have were defined.

In 1999 the territory of Mexico City was divided into Territorial Units, in which one or more Neighborhood Committees will be elected.

The Neighborhood Committees are organizations of citizen representation that have as a main function to relate the inhabitants of the Entity that have been elected to the political administrative entities of the Boroughs. The foregoing with the purpose of surveillance, evaluation and negotiation of the citizen claims before the authorities of the Borough in the issues of public services, soil use, usage of the public routes, public security and commercial establishments in their scope and competence.

Based on the provisions of the Law the number of members for the integration of a Committee is determined by the Electoral Institute of the Federal District, based on the corresponding Registry of voters and it goes from 7 to 14 members. In this framework, the Institute defined the integration of 1352 Committees in the 1280 Territorial Units.

The election of the Neighborhood Committees was carried out on July 4, 1999. For that purpose, 10,397 voting receiving Polling stations for the election of 1,352 Neighborhood Committees in 1,672 voting centers (see schedule). For such process 3,808 formulas were formed.

The Boroughs in which the highest number of formulas was presented was Iztapalapa and Gustavo A. Madero, with 694 and 524 correspondingly; meanwhile at the Borough of Milpa Alta only 39 formulas were presented.

The citizen participation at the entity was only 9.5%, this means, only one out of ten citizens attended to vote.

The Borough of Cuajimalpa de Morelos registered the highest percentage 13.72, followed by Tláhuac with 12.56 %; meanwhile the Borough of Cuauhtémoc registered the lowest percentage with only 6.19 %.

Plebiscite 2002

In the frame of the citizen participation law, for the first time in the modern history of the Federal District and by the initiative of the Head of Government, on September 22, 2002 a plebiscite was carried out to consult the citizens regarding their approval or rejection for the construction of the second levels of the street Viaducto Miguel Aleman and a stretch of the peripheral road named Boulevard Adolfo López Mateos.

The geographical location of said constructions is shown on the map.

For such consultation 6,166 polling stations were installed, distributed between 5,532 voting centers. The citizen participation was 6.64 %, out of which two thirds of the voters manifested for the construction of the second levels (see graphic).

In the Boroughs of Benito Juárez and Coyoacán the highest levels of participation were registered, 9.43% and 7.9% correspondingly, meanwhile at the Boroughs of Milpa Alta and Tláhuac the lowest were registered: 3.88 % and 4.5 %.

In this exercise of consultation, in 15 Boroughs of the Federal District the citizens voted “In favor of the construction” of the development, except for the Borough of Benito Juárez