More than 90% of those who took part in the so-called “revocation” referendum held yesterday Sunday in Mexico were in favor of the continuation of the term of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to the first assessment of the National Electoral Institute (INE), but the participation remained well below the 40% threshold required to make the result legally binding.
According to the INE forecast, the percentage of voters who voted in favor of President Lopez Obrador remaining in the presidency for the rest of his six-year term is between 90.3% and 91.9%, but the turnout ranged between 17% and 18.2% of the approximately 93 million voters.
The opposition – the right-wing PAN party, the center-left PRD, the ruling PRI political game for decades – sided with the abstention, denouncing the “populist exercise” that it called the referendum.
Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections, but have said they would like to use the referendum to seek re-election, a taboo in Mexico for more than a century after the “porphyriato”: President Porphyry Zeus, described by some historians as a dictator, remained in power for almost 30 years, from 1884 to 1911, before his exile and death in Paris.
SOURCE: AMPE
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