The vast electoral victory of Claudia Sheinbaum has been received in the sectors opposed to the Workers’ Party with a dose of anger and grief that has filled the networks. More restrained, political parties have started their own battles. After the confusion of the election night, when Morena’s victory was announced by 32 points over its opponent, The opposition, party by party, tries to get votes here and there that will change the results little, but perhaps it can serve to obtain a representative or senator by rushing the numbers. And to launch the idea that the victory was not such. The Mexican political grid has not stopped ringing since Sunday night and early Monday morning, which were already received with messages of disbelief and accusations of lack of cleanliness, something that hurts the international image of Mexico and that international observers have denied. , the INE and analysts of all ideologies.
The president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, recorded a video this Wednesday in which she explains that after the quick count that is issued hours after the polls close, a practically infallible system, the INE has also completed the recount of the minutes, the so-called PREP, which can now be consulted on the internet. And this Wednesday the district count began throughout the country, federal and local, in which all the minutes will be reviewed with the presence of party representatives. “If necessary, the polls are opened to count vote by vote,” said Sheinbaum. “We are sure of the result and that there was a free, peaceful and democratic election. That all the electoral packages that have to be opened be opened, we also asked for it in 2006″, Sheinbaum pointed out. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke with the same confidence in his morning conference. This last review may last until Sunday, when the final official results will be made public pending certification by the Electoral Court. This is specified in the electoral law.
The battle is not in the presidency, where Sheinbaum has scored 32 points more than the opposition. Nobody questions that. These are the Chambers, in which Morena and her allies from the Labor Party and the Green Party have also achieved a comfortable majority, qualified in deputies and with two seats left to achieve the same in the Senate. This is where political parties are working. The leader of the PRI, Alito Moreno, has broadcast a video from Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, in which he is pleased that one of his candidates, Américo Zúñiga, with more than 107,000 votes, will sit in the Chamber of Deputies . They have announced it with cheers and clapping as if it were a victorious election night. The opposition not only gives the image that it is working “for Mexico,” as they have said, but they also display a veil of distrust over the electoral process that defers the displeasure of their followers for just a few more days. Next Sunday there won’t be much left to say. A process that does not have to be abnormal, but rather adjusted to the electoral law, such as the review of the minutes, has been described like this by the leader of the PAN, Marko Cortés: “In the face of multiple anomalies, the PAN will review the minutes and challenge the presidential election.” Cortés maintains that his party “will not accept the validity of the elections, given that there was intervention from the National Palace, social programs were used to intimidate people, it was not an equitable election nor was there an even field. “It was a state election.” The latter means that the Presidency intervened in favor of a party.
The electoral body, highly defended by the opposition in recent months as guarantor of clean elections, has, however, had to come out to defend the recount. “The narrative of fraud, of the State election, does not correspond to reality. It is a false narrative,” said Martín Faz, president of the INE Organization and Training Commission. “There is no evidence of fraud and those who allege it must prove it. The calculations that will be carried out in the 300 electoral districts of the country starting today will offer the definitive results.”
But the noise on the networks and in political statements has moved to the streets and not in the best way. In the Electoral Institute of San Fernando, in Chiapas, for example, a woman jumped out of the window pursued by flames that were ignited by some residents dissatisfied with the victory in the Green party’s place. In Jalisco, where the Citizen Movement has won, the electoral body has denounced the assault on its headquarters with violent demonstrations and armed people. In this case, it is Morena who does not agree with the results. The president of the ruling party, Mario Delgado, has supported the criticism of his colleagues in Jalisco: “We will not overlook the anomalies in the counting of the 20 local and federal districts of Jalisco, which show a difference of one million votes ”, he wrote on social networks. And the Citizen Movement candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, has called it reprehensible that the party that has won the most in the elections behaves in that way. Morena is also fighting for votes in the heart of the capital.
International observers, with their classic recommendations, accepted the electoral contest and its results as good, but the grid does not subside, at least not until Sunday. And maybe more. There are those who maintain that the Constitution does not allow such large majorities in the Chambers, so this matter could also be resolved in the courts. Paradoxically, it has been some analysts who are very critical of the Government who have tried to calm things down, or at least have criticized the opposition for insisting on this fight instead of considering why they lost the elections with such an overwhelming difference in votes. Not a single resignation has been announced so far, when there are parties like the PRD, which is on the verge of losing its registration due to the few votes garnered. The PAN and PRI leaders are called to leave their positions due to the statutory deadlines, but they do not show any rush to do so. The grid is not finished yet.
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