Mexico: tens of thousands of opponents demonstrate to demand a “free vote” in the presidential elections

Tens of thousands of people gathered this Sunday in the Zócalo, the main square of Mexicoto demand a “free vote” in the June 2 presidential elections, which characterize the left-wing party in power as the big favorite.

The participants denounced the president’s attempt, Andrés Manuel López Obradorto orchestrate a “state elections” that favors the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaumwho leads the race with more than 60% support, according to several polls.

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“Today, those in power who reached that first floor by the free will of the citizens intend to destroy that staircase so that no one else can cross it,” he said. Lorenzo Córdovaformer president of National Electoral Institute (INE) and main speaker at the event.

The opposition guarantees that López Obrador seeks to reduce the capabilities and autonomy of the Mexican electoral authorityINE, through a series of reforms that it sent to Congress.

Furthermore, it accuses the left-wing president of using the state apparatus to promote Sheinbaum, whose main rival is the center-right candidate with indigenous roots. Xóchitl Gálvez.

The crowd gathered at the Plinthformed mainly by middle class citizens who came as families or in groups carrying flags and wearing pink and white clothesresponded to the speech with phrases like “Lopez out!” any “Let the Zócalo vibrate, long live the free vote”!

“Our democracy is not touched” It was read on a banner displayed on the platform where several leaders spoke.

López Obrador “intervenes every day in the elections, which is why I believe there will be state elections“, said Arturo Sánchez, a 64-year-old retiree who came accompanied by his wife and daughter.

In his speech, Cordoba He insisted that the current government has subjected other institutions that guarantee the balance of powers and supervision, such as the Supreme Court or autonomous regulatory bodies, to “permanent harassment”.

“Today, because they bother them, those in power seek to disappear, subordinate or capture them”, said the speaker, who reiterated the citizen and non-partisan nature of the demonstration.

“The current government does not want anyone to overshadow it, in a democracy there have to be checks and balances”, commented Julio Rodríguez Trigueros, a citizen who attended the march together with his two teenage children.

Source: Elcomercio

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