Morena asks the INE not to eliminate the boxes in rural areas

Andrea Becerril

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, February 6, 2022, p. 4

Senators from Morena demanded that the National Electoral Institute (INE) demonstrate in the facts that it does not seek to boycott the consultation to revoke the mandate on April 10 and reiterated that they will continue with the dissemination of this citizen participation mechanism in their respective entities, without This means trying to influence the will of the people.

We, as legislators who elaborated and approved the Federal Law for Revocation of Mandate, what we will do is spread its contentexplained Senator César Cravioto, who spoke yesterday with the president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, during the ceremony for the 105th anniversary of the Constitution and asked him to let them know the distribution of polling places, before they publish it, since it is It is essential that those eliminated are not from rural areas or remote communities.

If they are going to remove squares, let it be in urban areas, in cities, because there it is easier to move and instead of walking three blocks you can walk 10; on the other hand, eliminate in rural areas and that the voting center that you put in INE is two or three hours away, people no longer go.

The answer that Córdova gave him is that the INE is waiting for the proposals of the district boards. and as soon as they receive them they can talk with us.

Cravioto stressed that they are going to wait, but he will insist that the INE must show that it is not going to make decisions that affect citizen participation, by leaving entire populations without a nearby voting center.

For her part, Senator Antares Vázquez stressed that the question that will be put to citizens is complex, because the opposition in the Senate intervened in the modification of the original text. Her group, she explained, achieved that there could be two response options, one in the sense that the mandate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is revoked and another that ends his government.

It is important that we continue to inform citizens of this, so that they are clear about the meaning of their vote.he highlighted.

It is necessary to spread that there are two possible answers, he said. For those who agree with that the mandate be revoked for loss of confidence to President López Obrador, they will be able to cross out that option, and those who want it to be maintained until 2024, will cross out the other possibility that will be on the ballot, which is: to continue in the Presidency of the RepublicCravioto expressed in turn.

Asked about the PRI and PAN’s accusations that they violate the law with this, Senator Cravioto stressed that, in its recent resolution, the Supreme Court prohibited political parties from disseminating the consultation, but they leave intact the possibility that legislators, who were the ones who made the law, can spread it.

His colleague on the bench, Ovidio Peralta, also specified that in the tours he has already taken through his entity, he has found that citizens celebrate the possibility of removing half of the government from a president who has not met expectations and They only regret not having had that mechanism before to remove the bad rulers of other six-year terms.