Obtaining signatures for the recall referendum of AMLO’s mandate begins in Mexico

The collection of citizen signatures to ask the National Electoral Institute (INE) to approve a referendum to revoke the presidential mandate began this Friday in the City of Mexico.

“It is a democratic and citizen exercise with which we are trying to make this consultation on the revocation of the mandate a success”Gabriela Jiménez, president of the association, said at a press conference “Let democracy continue”, in charge of collecting the signatures.

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The midterm revocation referendum is one of the electoral promises of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president since 2018, to – as he has said – abolish privileges and promote direct democracy in Mexico.

With an army of 20,000 volunteers, the organization will seek in the next 45 days to achieve a total of 3.5 million digital and physical rubrics nationwide.

To carry out the mandate revocation consultation, which would be on March 27, 2022, the support of 3% of the citizens registered in the nominal list of voters is required, which is equivalent to at least 2.5 million voters. people from at least 17 of the 32 states that make up the country.

“But we want them to be a little more to solve those that are suddenly not valid,” argued Jiménez.

He trusted that they will reach the objective, even in less time than the established deadline, because, he explained, in three days they have obtained some 10,000 signatures.

Rosa María Villanueva is one of the 20,000 volunteers who will work in these brigades to collect signatures on the streets and although she accepts that it will be complicated because many times people are wary of giving their personal data, she hopes to get at least 500 signatures .

“It is about exercising democracy and our right to decide. The president is doing things well, so his mandate will surely be ratified with this consultation ”, he estimated.

He pointed out that this will be an important step so that from now on revocations of mandate from local leaders can be obtained.

“It is important that we have an opinion on that,” he said.

While Silvia Suriaga is another volunteer who will walk the streets of the Mexican capital in search of the signatures.

“It motivates me to leave this legacy not only for current generations but for my children and my grandchildren, who in the future can decide to have a better country,” he said.

Finally, Sergio Pérez, a member of the association’s board of directors, predicted that there will be more participation in the citizen consultation than in the 2018 elections, where the president was elected by 30.11 million Mexicans.

“We are going to defend our president, democracy and our right to decide,” he said.

At the end of August, the INE presented its budget proposal for 2022, which contemplates allocating 3.8 billion pesos (183 million dollars) to the revocation consultation.

On August 1, only 7% of the census voted in the popular consultation called by López Obrador on prosecuting the country’s former presidents, to which the ruling Morena party blamed the INE for boycotting it and the electoral authority responded that it did not have enough budget.

Although a 40% participation is required to make the derived decision binding, this Friday, the Mexican president assured that if the decision of the people is a majority for him to leave the presidency, he will retire.

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