Vote-by-vote counting; transparency, golden rule of democracy: AMLO

“Vote by vote, field by field!” With that slogan with which he opposed electoral fraud in 2006, this morning President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to the request of a number of opposition actors, similar to former candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, for the votes of the latest day to be counted. electoral.

“If you happen to ask me about counting the votes, nicely I’d reply: Vote by vote, field by field! As a result of he who owes nothing fears nothing, and the golden rule of democracy is transparency. They didn’t settle for that when the 2006 fraud occurred,” he harassed this Wednesday morning.

He expressed himself in favor of counting the votes, though he famous that the distinction immediately could be very removed from what occurred in 2006. On that event, he mentioned, Felipe Calderón had solely 0.56 % greater than him; whereas in Sunday’s election there’s greater than 30 factors of distinction within the overwhelming victory of the transformation candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

The federal president defined that the defeat for the conservatives “was a shock… higher I say for these from the north, for northern speech, a shaking; and for the speech of my land (southeast) it was a shake-up that was wanted.”

Given this, he beneficial, and even requested his adversaries to stay silent. “I’d ask nothing extra, they’re free, however for their very own good, that a number of the most offended ones stay silent, for a number of days, to chill down.”

And he exemplified that yesterday, in a nightly newscast, political scientist Denise Dresser mentioned that Mexicans “put again on the chains that we took from them”; argument to which the pinnacle of the Government sarcastically: “Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez!”

And he continued: “However at that degree: ‘The persons are masochists, the folks need to be slaves, the folks have no idea, the persons are silly.’ So long as they proceed to assume like this, they won’t be able to type a real opposition that’s wanted, that’s required within the nation and all through the world, to have genuine democracy or freedoms.”

He mentioned that we have now to attend, since many different issues and positions will emerge after the outcomes of the elections.

“Simply to name on all Mexicans to proceed behaving responsibly, to proceed appearing peacefully, to proceed respecting everybody, to not overlook the love of our neighbor, and to not overlook that solely by being good can we be comfortable, and be calm, nothing extra pending.”

It was mentioned in favor of counting the mandatory votes. “Let everybody take part in peace, he who makes use of violence just isn’t a democrat, he who bets on violence just isn’t leftist both.”

He acknowledged that conservatives, no matter whether or not they’re from the highest, from the political class or from beneath, are distinguished by three traits:

“They’ve hypocrisy as a doctrine, that distinguishes them, characterizes them, they’re very hypocritical, they lie with none disgrace, as they are saying one factor they are saying the opposite, they don’t have any ethical scruples of any variety.”

One other attribute “is that they’re very authoritarian, they like a heavy hand, they need to resolve every part with using power and they’re able to selling coups d’état and wars.”

And the third, “they’re very thieves, they’re very corrupt, I at all times repeat Leo Tolstoy’s phrase that have to be stored in thoughts: ‘a State that doesn’t search justice is nothing greater than a band of evildoers’.”

Subsequently, the Tabasco native harassed, the brand new conduct for them to request a recount of the votes isn’t a surprise.

He additionally insisted {that a} democracy is critical for the opposition. “That may assist them loads, as a result of competitors can be required, democracy is plurality, there needs to be opposition, it’s not the area of a single group, there shouldn’t be a single thought, that has extra to do with dictatorship, with totalitarianism, democracy is competitors, that’s the reason it’s the greatest political system of presidency, amongst different issues.”