Corruption, those who defend the INE and remained silent in the face of fraud: López Obrador

Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, p. 4

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador once again criticized those who say defend to the National Electoral Institute (INE) and to democracy, but they oppose the sector reform that they sent to the Congress of the Union a few months ago.

He gave a series of examples where, from his perspective, the electoral authority has ruled against the citizen’s interest, such as the 2006 or 2012 fraud, when the PRI exceeded the campaign spending limit, without any consequences.

“Is that the INE that they defend? Is that what they want? Is that what they call, with the electoral reform, seeking to destroy democracy? They are cretins, corruptazos. Let them go… to deceive further! ”, She emphasized yesterday morning before a new question on the subject.

He referred to the president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, as a key piece of the conservative bloc in Mexico: he belongs to conservatism; was promoted with the purpose that the neoliberals, conservatives, corrupt, simulate that in Mexico there was democracy.

He noted that Cordova He never spoke out when electoral fraud was committed. However, he was a specialist in the matter, but he never got into depth. He was always a pretender.

He refused to offer him the apologies he demanded for including him on his list of bottle caps of the opposition, since the counselor assures that it is prevented by law.

The president focused his criticism on the work of the INE in the presidential elections of 2006 and 2012. In the first case, he recalled that in the face of fraud claims, his movement and millions of citizens demanded the recount of votes, which the agency did not accept. .

Six years later, he added, when it was confirmed that the PRI and its candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, surpassed for long the cap on campaign spending, it was denounced. “And what was the ruling? That those who had exceeded the campaign ceiling were us, not the PRI and its standard-bearer.

Time passes and the whole Odebrecht scandal comes; there is the complaint in the Attorney General of the Republic. The PRI’s finance manager was Emilio Lozoya, who later became director of Pemex, and for that he is in prison. Is that the INE that you defend?he emphasized.

The reform, he argued, intends to transform the electoral institution, not to make it disappear, in order to avoid similar situations. How can we not do anything if we have known and have been victims of fraud in Mexico, which are a global shame? How to accept that it costs so much to make the elections and also that they are not reliable?

He said that the organizers of Sunday’s march what they want is precisely that, that the INE continue to serve the oligarchy; They are the ones who want a government for all sectors, except for the people.