Elites, city councils, elections and pronouncement. The case of the Plan of Jalapa in Chiapas, 1830

Abstract

The article explores the electoral conflict that arose in Chiapas as a result of the promulgation of the Plan of Jalapa, which emerged as an affront between factions and turned into a direct attack on the local congress that had been installed in the early 1830s. This article aims to analyze the implications that a federal pronouncement had in one of the entities and how local actors take on the general claims to change their local circumstances.