User:Allan Gálvez/Dedazo

Term dedazo (used in expressions such as «apply dedazo») is used as critique when a polítician or public servant designates its succesor o colleage without following any kind of public process and/or democratic selection. The term comes from the gesture of pointing with the finger at someone when choosing him or her for a position.

A synonim would be dedocracia, (government of the finger) which is formed from the susion of dedo (finger) and democracy. Also, expression such as digital election and digital democracy, which often refer to IT and communications in democratic processes, is sometimes used with sarcasm in the sense of «election by dedazo».