MEXICO CITY, May 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, predicted that Sunday’s (June 2) elections will be clean, free and above all peaceful.
That is my prediction, that is what I maintain and, furthermore, we are working with that purpose with the state governments and with the INE (National Electoral Institute), so that all together we can make sure that the people express themselves freely and vote without any fear’, he affirmed.
That the vote be truly free, secret, individual, and that an example of democracy be given’, he said at the beginning of his usual press conference from the National Palace, when he pointed out that his adversaries, the conservatives, bet that there was going to be violence.
They bet on that and fortunately that has not been the case, said Lopez Obrador, who added that it also helps a lot that people no longer want ‘that black history of electoral frauds, when they even stole the Presidency of the Republic, as we know’.
In his opinion, now a new stage is being inaugurated, of an authentic and true democracy.
Democracy is not a façade that serves for a power mafia to operate behind, an oligarchy, which were the ones who felt they were the owners of Mexico.
We are in different times, we have to celebrate it.
Now it is the people who are in charge and that is democracy’, he emphasized.
Around 100 million citizens will be able to exercise their right to vote at the polls, considered the largest in the history of the country and during which, among other positions, the President of the Republic will be elected, as well as senators, federal deputies and eight governorships.
According to polls, the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, of the coalition Sigamos haciendo historia, is ahead of her closest contender, Xóchitl Gálvez, of the right-wing alliance of the National Action, Institutional Revolutionary and Democratic Revolution parties, by a margin of more than 20 points. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA