Arturo Sanchez Jimenez and Nestor Jimenez
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday December 2, 2022, p. 4
The opponents reject the electoral reform because they want to have an instrument that they could use to commit fraud, as they have already done
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured yesterday.
Consulted in his morning conference on the subject, he said that this claim, however, “is very unrealistic because people are not going to allow any fraud.
The underlying motive is to have an instrument that they could use to commit fraud, as they have already done.
explained in the National Palace. I am not inventing anything, the electoral institute in 2006 was managed by the teacher Elba Esther Gordillo and they refused to count the votes to impose [Felipe] calderon
and they did it since then IFE, with extreme cynicism: cretinism
.
Four years after the start of his government, López Obrador said that in the country there is no polarization or a rarefied environment, but rather politicization of the people and support for his transformation project, since he presumed that he has 71 percent citizen approval.
He showed the results of the weekly survey, carried out by an American company, on the level of acceptance of 22 leaders and in which the Mexican Executive has remained in second place, only below the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, who reaches 76 percent.
There is no polarization, there is politicization, because the majority of the people agree with what is being done, we have the support of the people
maintained the Tabasco. Like never before, there are millions of conscious Mexicans
he assured.
The President, who announced that he is suffering from the flu due to the cold, said that the opposition should bear in mind that his government has the support of various sectors of the population, including the middle class and the business sector.
I believe that our adversaries should take into account the opinion of the people, that is their main problem: they despise the people and believe that the people are minors, that the people are stupid. No: stupid is the one who thinks that the people are stupid
exposed.
He assured that among the private and business sectors there are those who do not agree with the opposition bloc and its agenda. “Of course there are very intelligent businessmen in Mexico; how are they going to let themselves be ‘represented’” by the conservative parties and their allies, she opined.
Faced with criticism from the PAN leadership that López Obrador is plagiarizing his principles by calling his project mexican humanism
the president pointed out that this is not the case. We don’t look alike, but we have to respect each other. Everyone has their conceptions, his ideas and we must take this into account.
Regarding whether he will reinforce security in the National Palace, after Monday a man who circumvented the entrance filters to the Treasury Room approached him while he was giving the morning conference, López Obrador stated: Let’s take care of that
.
However, he reiterated that there is no environment of hate, of violence, fortunately
.
