The popular consultation revived the support that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has had for years in the southern and southern centers of the country, since it was in this part of the Mexican territory where there was more citizen participation in the August 1 exercise.
The Mexican president began his political career in Tabasco, since in that entity he joined the PRI in 1970 to be in Carlos Pellicer’s campaign for the Senate, and in 1977 he was appointed local delegate of the National Indigenous Institute. To this is added that from 2000 to 2005 he was head of government of the then Federal District.
Also, in the southern and central states of the country, it is where the Tabasco has had the greatest support in the elections that he has participated. For example, in 2012, the highest number of votes was received in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Morelos and CDMX.
Now in the popular consultation held on August 1, in which citizens were asked if a process of clarification of the decisions made in recent years by political actors was beginning, the highest participation was registered in the south and south centers of the country. , such as Tabasco, Tlaxcala, CDMX, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Campeche.
In this, 7.11% of the citizens registered in the nominal list participated, which represents 6 million 662 thousand 915.
Citizen participation in the consultation
Southern States is where the main works of AMLO are
This part of the country is also where the main works of the president are built: the Mayan Train, which will pass through the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo; Santa Lucía Airport, State of Mexico, and Dos Bocas Refinery.
In the first two years of the López Obrador government, these have been the priority projects, since year after year the resources for these increase up to 57%. Meanwhile, resources for autonomous bodies and entities decreased.
According to the Public Account and the Expenditure estimates for 2020 and 2021, the three works will obtain 216 thousand 961 million pesos.
Draft | Resources 2019-2021 (mdp) |
Mayan Train | 38,968 |
Two mouths | 136,306 |
Santa Lucia airport | 41,687 |
To this is added the program Sowing Life, by means of which the model of planting fruit or timber trees is promoted. This is applied in 20 states, of the 14 are from the south and 6 from the center and north of the country. Official data indicate that more than a million trees have been planted in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo.
This social action also had an increase in its budget from 2020 to 2021, from 48 thousand 784 million to 75 thousand 189 million pesos.
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In an interview, the political scientist Maribel Flores pointed out that although those who participated in this exercise are within the group that is for the federal president, it cannot be said that in their entirety those who expressed their opinion support the Tabasco project.
“Almost 7 million make the decision, which of course are within this group or sector of the voting that is to end or share a sympathy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his project (…) It is not necessarily that those 7 million in his The entirety supports the president’s political project. We have to consider the votes of the citizens who voted to raise their voices, for the victims, ”said the professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Meanwhile, Professor María Eugenia Valdez, considered that if in this part of the country they went to vote more, it is because they are probably having greater support from the government.
“They not only came out to vote out of political empathy, but out of gratitude and attention. For a long time those states had been left behind, and the fact that there are investments there, such as the Mayan Train ”.
He commented: “Let me explain that they have voted (in the popular consultation) more in the south, because that is where a high percentage of the citizenship has a high percentage of citizenship, which is the town of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”
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