Sunday, October 02, 2005

The cost of democracy

This term in kind of new for Mexicans, we know that democracy just arrived to us, I'd say on 1997, when left-party PRD won the elections on Mexico City, and definetily marked the the result on 2000 when Fox arrived to the Republic's Presidency.
But does this democracy cost? Well yes, as in every capitalist country I may think. But there's one thing it really bothers me about one particular process: every political party must choose one contendant for the different election positions, but before this, the have many interested persons from their parties, so now they promote their pre-candidates as if there where to run for the real elections! And they got money from gouverment, from our taxes... and let me say this cost a lot for our society.
And even before they got their candidate, we, as society, must know all pre-candidates... what's the sense of that? just waste more money?
Something's wrong with our system, because in a country like Mexico, we just can't afford this concept of democracy.