This mobilization against the potential reform project of the National Electoral Institute (INE), carried by the left president Andreas Manuel Lopez Obrador, is the most important organized since the start of his mandate four years ago.
Le Monde with AFP
A human tide overwhelmed the central avenue of Mexico City, Sunday, November 13. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have indeed descended into the street to protest against an electoral reform project carried by the leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). This is the greatest mobilization against the power organized over the past four years.
The demonstrators swept over the Paseo de la Reforma to reject the reform project which, according to its opponents, threatens the independence of the National Electoral Institute (INE) in charge of the organization of the elections since its creation in October 1990 .
Among them, notably included the former president Vicente Fox (2000-2006) and the deputy Santiago Creel, who provides for a year the rotating presidency of the Chamber, both members of the National Action Party (PAN), embodying the right -wing opposition.
reduction in the number of parliamentarians
The president in place “wants again that all the elections depend on the government, in order to be able to manipulate them as he pleases and stay in power,” accused Ms. Aberel, 53, who came with her husband to demonstrate. During walking, the demonstrators displayed pink t-shirts, color of the ine.
Always very popular after almost four years in mandate, President Lopez Obrador considers that the INE covered electoral fraud in the two previous elections in 2006 and 2012, which he had lost. The reform he advocates thus envisages that the members of the Ine Board of Management are elected to the popular vote, that is through great voters.
But that’s not all. It also provides for a drop in subsidies allocated to political parties and a drastic reduction in the number of parliamentarians. The number of federal deputies of deputies would go from 500 to 300 when that of the senators would fall from 128 to 96.
During the walk, a Pancart he proclaimed: “I am not corrupt, classist, racist, hypocritical”, in reference to the adjectives that Lopez Obrador was able to use last week to disqualify opponents to the reform.
But for Francisco Videla, a 50 -year -old merchant who came to protest with family and with friends on Sunday, “it is not a question of being against the government today, but against any government that Today or tomorrow wants to take control of the elections, “he told the France-Presse agency.
m. Lopez Obrador was elected in 2018 for a single six -year term, which ended in 2024, the date of the next presidential election. Its party, the national regeneration movement (Morena) and its allies currently dominate the two chambers.