This Sunday, Mexican citizens will be able to participate in the first popular consultation organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE), in which they will express whether or not a process of clarification of the political decisions made in the past years by political actors is initiated, like the ex-presidents.
For 15 days, members of Morena and various civil society actors turned to promoting this mechanism of citizen participation, and in some cases asked to vote “yes.” This regardless of the diffusion made by the electoral body.
This is because the challenge is to obtain the necessary vote so that the consultation is binding. According to the Federal Law of Popular Consultation, for this to happen, a little more than 37 million voters must participate in the polls; that is, 40% of the nominal list approved by the INE, which is more than 93 million.
Morena, who promoted the exercise since August 2020, intensified its promotional campaign to encourage citizens to vote.
Mario Delgado, national leader of the party, in the last week undertook a tour of the states that are governed by Morenoite politicians to call for the vote: Guerrero, Chiapas and Tabasco.
The elected governors Alfonso Durazo, Marina del Pilar, Indira Vizcaíno and the head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, also joined the Morenoist call to ask for suffrage and that the popular consultation advance.
Activism went further, Forbes Mexico made a tour of two city halls of Mexico City: Cuauhtémoc and Benito Juárez where he was able to verify that various gangs – with at least eight people, mostly elderly adults – were walking to stick up posters with the faces of former Mexican presidents and requesting the personal data of the voters.
-Are you a beneficiary of any social program? Forbes Mexico a 67-year-old woman who beat up cartels in the Atenor Salas neighborhood.
– “The government gives me my pension as an older adult, but I’m here out of conviction,” he replied while his partner, a 69-year-old man, collected the name, address, electoral section and electoral code of a person interested in participating in the consultation. that is done today.
– “The important thing is that today families can be certain that there may be justice for some shit of the usurping asshole of (Felipe) Calderón or (Enrique) Peña Nieto, who led us to the cliff,” said the man.
According to sources within Morena, each delegate and state committee has the task of getting people to help in the dissemination of propaganda material and today to go out to vote.
Before the INE, the promoters of the pro-consultation movement sought to accredit 30 thousand electoral observers; however, it only registered 10,000.
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In this regard, Omar García, a survivor of the attack on the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa in 2014, and who promotes the realization of this exercise, pointed out that the popular consultation should not be seen as an achievement of Morena or President López Obrador but as an conquest of citizenship.
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“The process has become very dark, but the work of the citizens does not have to be made invisible (…) In this, the citizens and the victims’ families have to take the lead,” he launched.
“Being a survivor of the Ayotzinapa case has great meaning for me. I started the initiative together with other colleagues at the end of August of last year ”, García told Forbes Mexico.
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– “Set a precedent, whether it be successful or failure, what if it is going to happen is what the Zapatistas say, that a great truth commission will have to be formed in an extemporaneous way. silly ”, he specified.
According to Mario Delgado, president of the National Executive Committee of Morena, if the consultation is not binding, it will be his party that promotes the creation of a great truth commission that guarantees victims full access to justice.
“These processes are very painful, they are long, they penetrate deep into the social wound. So the mere fact that it exists seems valuable to me ”, commented Antonio Attolini, a militant of Moren..
“The consultation, which appeals to memory, which appeals to the truth, because that is what the consultation is about, which is to clarify the political decisions of the past; it is a success in itself. So, whatever happens, the number of people who go out to vote speaks of a memory claim that cannot be accounted for or cannot be discarded if it does not comply arithmetically, ”he said.
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“The consultation has as its fundamental center, why we are doing this, to clarify the political decisions of the past to the detriment of the victims and their human rights. What the consultation intends to do is break a pact of impunity that could hardly be done by the top elites, ”said the morenista.
Consultation background
The popular consultation is the first exercise of this magnitude organized by the INE, at the request of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and 2.7 million citizens who contributed their signature to the Senate of the Republic.
The popular consultation was introduced in a political reform introduced by the government of former President Felipe Calderón.
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It was on August 9, 2012 when this mechanism for citizen participation was included; however, the issuance of the secondary law of article 35 of the Constitution was not achieved and it would be in 2014, in the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto, where it would be published.
In 2019, after a new reform to the federal law of popular consultation and revocation of the mandate, it was established that to request this exercise, at least the equivalent of two percent of the nominal list of electors of the state or states had to be captured. to participate in the process.
The petition for popular consultation can also be promoted by 33% of the legislators of both chambers of the Congress of the Union or directly by the President of the Republic.
It was on September 15, 2020, when the Tabasco man sent to the Senate of the Republic a request to hold a popular consultation on the possible prosecution, after investigation and in accordance with due process, to the former presidents who ruled Mexico from 1988 to 2018.
President López Obrador then proposed this question:
“Do you agree or disagree with the competent authorities, in compliance with applicable laws and procedures, investigating, and where appropriate punishing, the alleged commission of crimes by former presidents Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León , Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Enrique Peña Nieto before, during and after their respective administrations? ”.
However, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared that putting the names of former officials on the ballot would violate their human rights, so it modified the question to this:
“Do you agree or not that the pertinent actions be carried out, in accordance with the constitutional and legal framework, to undertake a process of clarification of the political decisions made in the past years by political actors, aimed at guaranteeing justice and the rights of potential victims? “
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