With memes, users pointed out that Jolette won more votes in “The Academy” than the Mandate Revocation Consultation

Social networks have become a space for interaction and exchange of opinions, and to that end, memes are one of the best tools that users have to express their convictions with their characteristic touch of humor.

On this occasion, in connection with the popular consultation of the Revocation of Mandate, users on social networks exploited their creativity to compare the number of people who went to the polls to vote this Sunday with those who supported Jalisco Jolette during her participation in the fourth generation of La Academia in 2005.

Similarly, users made fun of the low citizen participation that the popular consultation on Mandate Revocation had, even though punished various officials for promoting it and even forced them to withdraw any type of publicity that would persuade citizens to participate in the democratic exercise promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

It is worth mentioning that while Jolette competed on the reality TV show Azteca she was severely criticized for her singing to such an extent that even Lolita Cortés, who was then part of the jury, asked viewers to stop voting for the Jalisco.

Following the consultation for the revocation of the mandate, the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) celebrated the “success” it meant despite the “pitfalls and boycotts” of the National Electoral Institute (INE).

During his press conference, the president again issued a complaint to the electoral body for not placing enough boxes for all citizens to have access to suffrage: “There were municipalities where there were no boxes”.

“Our opponents say 'it's half the votes the president had in 2018'. Yes, but nothing more with the third of the boxes and with all the cheating or boycotting of the INE that was not applied to put boxes everywhere,” he said during his morning conference on Monday, April 11.

López Obrador even awarded the body led by Lorenzo Córdova part of the responsibility for the traffic accident in which three people died in San Fernando, Chiapas: According to official reports, a pickup truck carrying suspected voters capsized and fell into a ravine on the morning of April 10.

“A truck that took people to vote collapsed (...) All this motivated because they removed a lot of boxes in order to prevent people from participating,” he claimed not before sending his condolences to relatives of the fatalities.

For a long time La Academia was one of Tv Azteca's landmark programs. It was around 2005 that this singing program premiered its fourth generation. With a total of 18 students who gathered in a busy casting throughout Mexico, the final cast would feature great voices such as those of Yuridia, Erasmo and Edgar. But much of the attention (and the rating) would go to a student. Her name was Jolette and she was originally from Jalisco.

The controversy with Jolette Guadalupe Hernández Navarrete would start from her third concert in front of the judges; the criticism was always about Jolette's mishandling on stage. Sometimes it was because of her lack of ease when it came to dancing, then because of how she seemed to drown in full performance, due to lack of vocalization, because of a mishandling of her voice on a note... the reasons were abundant and on many occasions they insisted to Jolette that she was not a singer.

However, the now host survived all the eliminations and that would cause the “indignation” of the judges, especially Lolita Cortés, who was the one who was leading the discussions with her student. Week after week, the Academy audience came together to vote for Jolette, a situation that social media users revived and compared with the number of citizens who participated this Sunday, April 10, in the citizens' consultation on the Revocation of Mandate.

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