Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey:

Since I come from the judiciary system, it is very hard for me to express my opinion on the political parties in the country now. However, what I can say is that they are very weak. They live for one election and after that they change, dissolve or form another party. The whole system of political parties is weak. For example, the two parties that signed the peace accords now have only one representative out of 150. One of our biggest worries is that along the borders, organised criminals linked to narcotics trafficking have a lot of money and they influence and finance the campaigns. That is another part of the problem.