Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the legislators of the self-called “Fourth Transformation” (Q4) have complained that the National Electoral Institute (INE) is not sufficiently promoting the popular consultation on the Revocation of the Mandate, the reality is that the agency is using any type of communication strategy to reach citizenship, especially the youngest.
Through its official TikTok account, the INE has published a series of videos explaining the importance of participating in the democratic exercise next Sunday, April 10. But the attractive thing is that for this he used anime scenes (cartoons from Japan).
Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, Evangelion, Foodwars! and Attack on Titans, are the titles that appear among his video clips.
For example, in one of them Shinji from Evangelion asks “I don't know why they want to go to that”, to which his schoolmates respond: “Shinji! you just don't understand, do you? It is important that all people participate in the democracy exercises. It's for Mexico!” , they say in unison as they hit him on the head to correct it.
In another one, Naruto appears, as the leader of the village of La Hoja, explaining to the Genin (basic level ninjas), as well as other inhabitants, it is to say whether the President of the Republic should continue in office only by answering yes or no on the ballot.
And for those who don't know where to vote, Soma, from Foodwars! , shares with his schoolmates a link to a website, where when placing the entity and editorial section, the exact address of the corresponding box will be displayed.
These TikToks have caused a sensation among many millennials and Generation Z, who through their social networks celebrated the use of their favorite anime characters. However, there are others from #RedAMLO who considered it a lack of respect and a bad strategy.
“The INE account makes my taxes worth”, “I don't know how much they pay the network account but I know it's not enough”, “And they still dare to say that the INE does not advertise, this is ground gold”, “The INE only talks to one sector, shows this anime talking about going to vote, that institution is not ready for all the people”, “How low have those of the FILM. See that promoting the Revocation of Mandate on TikTok with an Attack on Titan anime is a mockery of this democratic exercise,” he reads on Twitter.
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