Mexico He opted this Sunday for the continuity of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of the country in the referendum on the revocation of the mandate. Just over 90% of voters were in favor of his management.
Participation, however, did not reach 20%; half of the 40% of the electoral census that was necessary for the exercise to be binding, according to the Spanish agency Eph.
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Between 90.3% and 91.9% of the voters who went to the polls voted in favor of the president continuing in office for the remaining three years of his term.
Meanwhile, between 6.4% and 7.8% preferred the revocation, informed the president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova.
In a message to the nation broadcast on YouTube, the president defined the day as “historic” since it is the first time that a consultation is held to revoke the president or not.
“It is a democracy and it is the people who rule. I am very happy, because despite the regrets many people went out to vote”.
However, the participation was between 17% and 18.2% of the voters, a figure very far from the 40% necessary for the consultation to be binding. According to the newspaper La Jornada, the figures are around 16.8 million voters.
The low turnout constitutes a political setback for López Obrador and support for the opposition parties that rejected the consultation and proposed non-participation, says the Spanish agency.
With information from Eph.
