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Havana, April 11 (ACN) The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez took to Twitter today to congratulate his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who was confirmed as his nation’s president this Sunday.
“Congratulations to @lopezobrador_ who has been ratified as President of #Mexico in an unprecedented rating in his country,” published Díaz-Canel on this social network.
According to Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador believed the recall consultation held on Sunday reaffirmed democracy.
In a message on his social networks, López Obrador described the revocation of the mandate as a “historic” day, representing a step forward in the goal of establishing participatory democracy in the country.
“We are participating in the historic democratic exercise taking place across the country today. Democracy must be a way of life, a habit of Mexicans, so that no one feels absolute. The people rule,” the Mexican president tweeted the day before.
According to data provided by the Presidential Advisor of the National Electoral Institute of Mexico (INE), Lorenzo Córdova, based on the preliminary sample, the census showed that between 90.3% and 91.9% of voters continued to support López Obrador in the Presidency of Mexico, so between 14.2 and 15.9 million voters.
Meanwhile, between 6.4% and 7.8% of voters opted for the option of revoking AMLO’s presidential mandate, and between 1.6% and 2.1% annulled their vote.