Condiciones para la aceptación de los resultados de una elección

Abstract

Political legitimacy appeals to a subjective substrate that compromises the two extremes of a relationship. From the perspective of those who must obey, it will be legitimate for a government to access power and exercise in compliance with the requirements that they believe they must meet to send. From the perspective of the person in charge, the government that accesses power and what it exercises will be conceived as legitimate, seeing what it obeys that meets the requirements to command. The elections defined the right to access power and invariably the recognition of the cleanliness of the elections depends on whether their results coincide with the specific policies of the individual. There are four conditions that could be established to separate the elections whose results are controversial from those that are not: one, the effective guarantees of respect for the integrity of the losers and for the subsequent unhindered participation of the contestants in political life; two, the narrowness of the difference between the result and the requirements established to grant the victory; three, the provision of timely, continuous, transparent and verifiable information mechanisms on the results, such as the collection of preliminary electoral results and statistical rapid counting exercises that anticipate the distribution of votes within known margins of precision; and four, maintain an electoral authority that can be an arbitrator who exercises his functions impartially, by not representing the interests of any party or being against any party.