Let all those that are necessary be counted, says AMLO after demand for a vote-by-vote recount

Following the demand of the former PAN, PRI and PRD candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, to count vote by vote in the polls, after the results of the elections on Sunday, June 2, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded that all votes that are necessary.

In his morning press conference at the National Palace, he reiterated his position that the opposition needs self-reflection because it has not processed the defeat, and recommended that it get closer to the people of Mexico.

“In very general terms, without pretending to be Manichean, which means not to qualify, but to see black or white, I said yesterday, and I am convinced, that conservatism has three characteristics, especially in the attitude of those at the top, because there are also conservatives from below are aspirational, but there are conservatives linked to the economy, who are part of the oligarchy,” said the man from Tabasco.

López Obrador mentioned that there are also conservatives from the so-called political class who are not necessarily the ones in charge, or the bosses, they are generally like employees of the oligarchs.

One and the other are distinguished by three things, one because they have hypocrisy as a doctrine, the President maintained, some lie shamelessly; As they say one thing they say the other, he has no moral scruples of any kind, he noted.

The president commented that the second characteristic is that they are very authoritarian, they like a heavy hand, they want to resolve everything with the use of force and they are capable of promoting coups d’état and dirty wars. And the third, he added, they are very thieves, they are very corrupt.

“In this general framework, which of course needs to be explained in a timely manner, proven, because it is possible, we can also understand what is happening in our country and in the world,” said the man from Tabasco.

“So, nothing should surprise us in terms of that behavior. Now if you ask me about the votes being counted, I would answer: vote by vote, boxes by box; vote by vote, box by box, because whoever swims should fear nothing.”

The golden rule of democracy is transparency, said López Obrador, who pointed out that his adversaries did not accept this during the 2006 fraud.

“We are talking about an assumed difference of 0.55, it did not reach a point,” highlighted López Obrador, who highlighted that now the difference between Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez is very wide.

He said that the information available demonstrates the level of disproportion, the lack of rationality, common sense, and fanaticism.

“As long as they do not overcome that, and this is a respectful recommendation, as long as there is no attachment to the truth, as long as we act honestly, as long as the people are not respected… it will be very difficult for them to move forward,” he said. .

“They would have to start with self-criticism and rectify. That would help them a lot, because competition is also required, democracy is plurality, there has to be opposition, it is not the domain of a single organization. There should not be a single thought, that “It has more to do with dictatorship, with totalitarianism, democracy is competition.”

López Obrador expressed that this is why democracy is the best political system of government, among other things, and in essence it is good because it is synonymous with justice, “it is not what conservative intellectuals think.”

“Yes, there needs to be opposition, but a serious and responsible one that defends its proposals, that presents its project, its action program,” said the president.

He mentioned that throughout the campaign, the only thing the opposition did was attack his government, with famous journalists from abroad and with accusations on social networks of #narcopresident, without any evidence, and a dirty war in all the media.