The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has already gone to vote (Mexico). EFE/ Sáshenka Gutiérrez
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador left the Nationwide Palace to train his citizen proper to vote, in a vital election to find out whether or not his challenge, which he started in 2018, continues or is hindered by the arrival of the opposition.
Early on the morning of Sunday, June 2, López Obrador, accompanied by his spouse Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, went to vote on the polling station put in on 4 Moneda Road, within the Centro neighborhood, on the Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit score. (SHCP), the Outdated Palace of the Archbishopric.
It’s on this field the place the president has voted since he moved to the Nationwide Palace in June 2019 – each within the midterm elections and within the mandate revocation session that passed off in April 2022.
AMLO attended the sales space positioned within the SHCP Museum. (Presidency)
“Braveness up,” the president shouted. The sales space already appeared crowded and many individuals who have been lined up took the chance to take a photograph with him.
When he arrived, he confirmed his voter ID card, talked about his identify, minimize off his poll and forged his vote.
Upon leaving the Nationwide Palace, the Tabasco native was questioned about who he voted for, since on earlier events, within the 2006, 2012 and 2018 elections, he didn’t vote for himself.
In these elections, the federal president voted for Carlos Monsiváis, José María Pérez Homosexual and Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, respectively.
President López Obrador voted on the polling station positioned at 4 Monera Road. (Presidency)
Throughout earlier days, President López Obrador mentioned he was certain that these elections can be the cleanest and most peaceable within the historical past of Mexico, for which parts of the Armed Forces and the Nationwide Guard have been deployed.
On the morning of Might 28, the president indicated that this course of will end up in the easiest way, since he labored hand in hand with the state governments and the INE in order that residents can vote freely.
“We contemplate that they will be free and clear elections, above all peaceable, that’s my prediction, that’s what I preserve and we’re additionally working with that objective with the state governments and with the INE in order that collectively we are able to obtain that the individuals manifest freely,” mentioned President López Obrador.
The president boasted that in his six-year time period he lowered working poverty. Picture: Authorities of Mexico
He additionally added that the ‘adversaries’ are betting on violence, however that the day will happen in a harmonious method:
“The elections on Sunday, that’s my prediction, are going to be the cleanest, freest within the historical past of Mexico, simply as I’m telling you. Our adversaries, the conservatives, guess that there was going to be violence. and fortuitously it has not been like that,” he defined.
The president talked about – simply earlier than the electoral ban started – that maybe immediately he would give a message in regards to the elections, though he made it clear that he would look forward to the INE. He additionally recalled that he would converse in additional element on the Morning of June 3.
“I’ve to attend for the INE, possibly I’ll add one thing… And the subsequent day we shall be right here and we are going to discuss extra,” mentioned the president whereas confirming that on Sunday he’ll stay within the Nationwide Palace and the one exit that Will probably be early that day to vote.
