Religión y política en las elecciones del 2018. Evangélicos mexicanos y el Partido Encuentro Social

Abstract

The objective is to go in depth into the heterogeneity of the orientations and  conducts of evangelical Mexicans towards politics and the diverse positions they exhibit. The variables studied ethnographically (Church, community, personal  history and economic situation) regarding each parishioner which affect such  orientations. Nevertheless, among the findings we can highlight that there are two  common renderings of what affect their political orientation: 1) the notion of politics linked to the earthly, the mundane, the negative; 2) a juarist nationalistic exaltation with input from the anticatholic ideology that is common among evangelical Mexicans. It is concluded that in the 2018 elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador  was supported by an evangelical party base and probably this formation could influence some aspects of the new head of state’s politics.