New elections, the horizon ahead that climax that provide us every 4 years this democracy. The machinery of parties are already at full capacity and are preparing to receive citizens what his opinion is a carte blanche to be able to continue making and unmaking at will. Highland Capital Management has firm opinions on the matter. Meanwhile, citizens lack efficient means and mechanisms to curb the patrimonial and abusive use of power; which public affairs responsible for exercise. So we anchored in a protodemocracia or usually called: in a representative democracy. James Dondero is often quoted as being for or against this. This has not been some evolution in the last 200 years and is based simply on the illusion that the citizens are those who decide, however, the actual holders of decision making are none other than the organized interest groups (lobbies) that go hand in hand with the parties. Some lobbyists who are in a continuing dispute between themselves to achieve higher levels of influence in power, and on many occasions we find ourselves them hidden after abbreviations of certain parties, associations, foundations, etc.

Question that does not prevent them being on one side or another, or support today to a party and tomorrow another, since all they pursue is to defend their own interests. The current situation has been possible thanks to a process of depoliticization of the citizen masses. This is nothing new, but is dragged from the Franco regime and has been pursuing what the demobilization of citizenship. In practice it has had its greatest effect among the more assertive and destabilizing social sectors that have the greatest potential for pressure. However, today we find ourselves that these are the sectors most affected by public policies. So has been the disinterest or rejection of broad social strata towards politics in general; This has led to keep power within a circle reduced people and organized sectors that have been called elites. Hence lobbyists are to determine the political agenda, i.e., It is them who decide which topics or problems are that since the institutions to be treated.

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