AMLO: I stay and we are going to continue with the transformation of our country

Minutes after 11:00 p.m., President López Obrador released a video on his social networks in which he assured that this April 10 was a momentous day because for the first time Mexico held a mandate revocation consultation. Although the participation did not exceed 20% of the nominal list, the federal president stressed that there are more votes received this Sunday than those he obtained in other electoral processes and even those that his opponents have reaped. .

“Not all the voting booths were installed, but I got more votes now for me to continue than in 2006, of course there was a fraud, but there, I think they left me 14 million 700,000 votes. (Felipe) Calderón (got) 15 million, but now, it is calculated that 15 million 671,000 is the projection they have; that is, more than what Calderón fraudulently obtained in 2006 and also more than what I obtained in 2012 and more than what (Ricardo) Anaya obtained , in the last presidential election; he obtained 12 million 610,000, second place, and third place José Antonio Meade, (with) 9 million 289,000 and now 15 million 671,000”, he highlighted.

President López Obrador spoke in favor of reforming the Federal Mandate Revocation Law later so that the threshold of 40% citizen participation that makes the result binding is lowered.

“Hopefully, and going forward, the presidents commit themselves to not needing to reach 40% for the election to be valid, because that is what is now established in the law of laws that is the Constitution: 40% of the voter registration, even without that, if you lose in a consultation, then you have to leave office, because you can’t govern without the support of the people, you can’t govern without moral authority, because if you don’t have moral authority, you don’t have political authority; It makes the consultation not binding, 40% participation is not reached, the ruler has to be ashamed, he has to have dignity and not be forced because that is not democracy, that is legality, but not necessarily democracy, “he said .

No boxes installed

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, just as Morena leader Mario Delgado did this Sunday, complained that the National Electoral Institute did not install more polling stations to receive votes.

“I am very happy because despite the regrets, many people went out to vote today, according to official calculations, more than 17 million Mexicans. Despite the fact that no voting booths were installed, only 30% of the voting booths were installed. that were installed in 2018, a third of the voting booths, in many municipal seats there were no voting booths. In my town, in Tepetitán (Tabasco), where voting booths are always installed, this time there were no voting booths, they put them at 30, 40 kilometers away, but throughout the country the people looked for the polling place and mobilized on foot, by canoe, by boat, on horseback, by truck, as best they could, and they went to fulfill the commitment to uphold democracy,” highlighted.

Around 08:44 a.m. this Sunday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador went to the booth installed in the Art Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), also known as the Old Archbishop’s Palace.

In the box in which the federal president cast his vote, he won the option to remain in the Presidency of the Republic.