López Obrador affirms that the elections would be the “cleanest and freest” within the historical past of Mexico
The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, mentioned this Tuesday that the following elections would be the “cleanest and freest within the historical past” of Mexico. The president has accused the opposition of the usage of the discourse of electoral violence earlier than and throughout the marketing campaign. “Our adversaries, the conservatives, wager as a result of there was once going to be violence. However thankfully it has now not been like that,” he famous. This marketing campaign has been essentially the most violent in historical past, with greater than 30 applicants murdered.
The president’s morning has identified previous electoral processes, with out specifying which of them. “It is helping so much that individuals now not need fraud, that black historical past of electoral fraud. Once they even stole the presidency of the Republic, as we all know,” he defined. López Obrador accused PAN President Felipe Calderón of electoral fraud within the 2006 elections – a speech that he has maintained – when he beat the then PRD candidate through a slender margin. In step with the president, his mandate has been what has resulted in unfastened elections. “We’re opening a brand new degree of true democracy. It’s now not a cool animated film of democracy,” he argued.
