President Andrés Manuel López Obrador This Tuesday he rejected that there was risk of blackouts on June 2the day of the federal election, given the concern expressed to the National Electoral Institute (INE).
In his morning press conference at the National Palace, the president maintained that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has the capacity to guarantee the service of the electrical system.
“We have now gone four days without blackouts, despite the fact that consumption increased again yesterday, Monday, we are waiting,” said López Obrador regarding the blackouts of recent days.
In addition, he mentioned that the national electrical system does not have to fail, and recalled that the electoral raccoons resorted to blackouts to commit fraud.
The Chief Executive said that before, fraud was carried out precisely with blackouts, when the votes began to be counted, between seven and eight at night on election day.
“The raccoons of those times, who are still there, had a blackout as a practice to change the ballot boxes, and it was another ballot box already made outside, already with the ballots. They used that,” López Obrador commented.
He related that about 50 years ago, in a city in Tamaulipas, they told the raccoon that they had to make sure the light went out to make the change with all the electoral papers, and then all the transformers thundered and the place was left for about a week. without light.
“That’s how it was, then, no offense, but if you need plants, we get them all,” said the President.
He assured that the Federal Electricity Commission will have the capacity to ensure that there are no blackouts on election day.
“If necessary, plants would be used,” said the president.
In recent days, the National Electoral Institute announced the allocation of 20 million pesos for the lease of 100 light plants, with the aim of preventing possible failures in the Preliminary Electoral Results Program on June 2.
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