Mexico City (BLAZETRENDS).- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, promised this Monday that he will not intervene in the election of the presidential candidate of his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), one year after the 2024.
“There will be no finger,” said the president during his morning press conference from the National Palace.
Within the framework of electoral day on June 4 to elect the governors of Coahuila and the State of Mexico, the Mexican ruler asked to end what he considered “undemocratic practices” in the country’s electoral processes.
Start of the presidential race in Mexico
Sunday’s elections marked the symbolic start of next year’s presidential race, after López Obrador’s party conquered the State of Mexico, the most populous in the country, while the former hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) maintained its position in Coahuila. last bastion.
“(End with) the finger, the covert (presidential candidate), the imposition, sweep away all that, end all that and that applies to all parties. It is not that I am going to put the candidate of Morena, no. There will be no finger, it will be the people. It will be the citizens who are going to decide”, promised the president for the presidential election.
López Obrador made a call to “banish” actions such as slander in the media, pacts between economic leaders and political parties, giving money to candidates, receiving money from abroad and, “of course, banishing vote buying, intimidation, the use of the budget to favor parties”, among other things.
López Obrador advocates for democracy
Likewise, the president took advantage of the space to congratulate the virtual winners of the elections in the northern state of Coahuila and in the central State of Mexico, where Delfina Gómez, former secretary of Public Education of López Obrador, won.
“Congratulations to the people and also to those who succeeded, Manolo Jiménez (in Coahuila) and the teacher Delfina,” he said.
He stressed that in Sunday’s elections “plurality” was seen, which means the “representation of all the people.”
He also said that one year after the presidential elections, the important thing is “to strengthen democracy, not only as a political system as a form of government, but as a way of life.”
López Obrador stressed that “there were no major problems”, the people participated and there were no post-electoral protests although, he said, “complaints can still be filed legally.”
