CDMX.- The best political system is democracy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated this Sunday after casting his vote on April 10, the day the mandate was revoked.
The President cast his vote in the box set up in the Old Archdiocese Palace next to the National Palace on Calle de Moneda in the Cuauhtémoc Mayor’s Office in Mexico City.
Accompanied by his wife Beatriz Müller Gutiérrez, López Obrador left the polling station, pointing out that democracy should be a way of life and then called on the Mexican people to exercise their political rights in the consultation.
“Democracy must always prevail in the family, at school, in the workplace and in the unions and of course in public life,” he said.
The executive’s Tabasqueo asserted that democracy must become a habit in Mexico “because that will help us so that no one feels absolutely absolute at any level.”
“No one must forget that the people call the shots, that the people provide and the people take, because the people are sovereign,” said the president.
Several dozen people sympathetic to the president crowded around the place and shouted slogans for the continuation of López Obrador’s office.
López Obrador announced Tuesday that he would vote at the first such consultation, but that he would annul his vote by writing “Viva Emiliano Zapata” on the ballot, recalling that on April 10, 1919, the caudillo of the South was murdered.
According to law, at 8:00 a.m. this Sunday, the consultation process, promoted by the chief of executive himself and with the expectation of a low turnout, began with the opening of 57,517 polling stations.
However, the trial has led to harsh clashes between the President and his Morena party, with the INE and the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) electoral tribunal.
According to the INE, more than 92.82 million Mexicans over the age of 18 were called to vote this Sunday at the 57,517 polling stations set up.
According to the electoral body responsible for organizing the consultation, more than 94 million ballot papers have been distributed, leaving no one without a vote.