El sufragio facultativo de los adolescentes ecuatorianos en el proceso electoral.

Abstract

The Rights of Participation in the Election Processes and even more so from October 20, 2008, is the date and year on which the Constitution came into force,in which it establishes the optional vote for people between 16 and 18 years of age. Of course, this constitucional provision brought much criticism. The General Objective analyses the legal status of optional suffrage for Ecuadorian adolescents between the ages of 16 and 18. In this research, I have used the following methodology: As a method: the scientist with his variations of historical -legal, doctrinal legal, inductive-deductive, and comparative legal. Survey, interview and statistical observation have been used as techniques. The research universe of 200 adolescents as a sample of 40 teenagers; and 400 adults, with a sample of 156. The interviews have been conducted with three (3) legal professionals. As important results we have: adolescent who participated with suffrage in the last election do not enjoy any personal benefit. Teenagers are deceived and manipulated by politicians and political parties, it is also worth noting that teenagers go to the polls without reflection or political awareness, and the most important result is that the information obtained served me to put my proposal as a solution alternative. Undoubtedly, the subject of study has been well seen by the majority of participants in the research process and logically, many teenagers believe that it is a conquest of the optional vote.