Recommendation 7 (Voter Education) Guatemala 2003
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Enhancing civic education especially among the peasants and indigenous populations. More than in previous occasions, indigenous people especially women
have shown to an extraordinary degree the political will to register, getting mobilized during the campaign and turn out on elections day. Certain areas of
citizen participation seem of particular importance such as the protection of fundamental rights and the procedures to deal with public authorities, both in getting
information and presenting complaints. On this latter respect, it is not just by change that the largest number of all electoral complaints brought before the electoral
authorities was discarded on the ground of the complainant’s “lack of active legitimacy.”
