The president of the General Council of the National Electoral Institute, Lorenzo Cordovasaid that “today in Mexico, there is no room for fraud”, during the extraordinary session of the council on the occasion of the electoral processes that take place in 6 states of the country this June 5.
Córdova assured that 11 million people from the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas have begun to vote in the 21,000 squares that have been installed in these entities.
“With the 8 elections this Sunday, we will reach 330 electoral processes organized by the National Electoral Institute in coordination with the OPLES in the new model derived from the 2014 political reform,” he said.
The President Councilor of INE He added that all these electoral processes have taken place in conditions of legality, fairness, transparency, objectivity and certainty “and whoever says otherwise is lying,” he assured.
“The reform has provided Mexico with the period of greatest political stability since there was democracy,” he said. Córdova affirmed that this has happened this way, although there are some disloyal players with democracy “who have tried to use and activate the penal arm of the State, breaking the articulating axis, the heart, of the political arrangement that allowed Mexico to move towards a democracy.”
“Today in Mexico, there is no room for fraud. Our electoral system is in excellent health and is the product of an evolutionary process that began decades ago,” he said.
However, he assured that despite this sound health, the Mexican electoral system is perfectible, so the elections this Sunday, June 5, as has happened with the other electoral processes, will lead to learning to detect areas for improvement.
“Undoubtedly, Mexican democracy has many pending issues, starting with the fact that our democracy has not yet resolved our old structural problems, but it will not be weakening the current electoral systemBy suffocating it budgetarily, much less by suppressing electoral institutions, violating its autonomy or attacking the professional electoral service, how Mexico will be able to achieve a full democracy. On the contrary, going back to a past of uncertain situations and institutions co-opted by power, whoever it may be, would only aggravate things. The problems are only going to be solved with more democracy and that is precisely what we are recreating in six states,” he concluded.
This Sunday, June 5, the citizens of the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas will elect their governor, while in Quintana Roo they will also elect the 25 deputies of the local congress and in Durango to the next holders of the town halls.
According to Córdova Vianello, most of the citizens who received the invitation from the INE to participate as poll workers accepted it, so that nearly 147,000 “duly trained” people will be at the voting centers receiving the votes of their neighbors. In addition, she added that 4,618 electoral observers are registered and the political parties have accredited their representatives in most of the polling stations.
“Everything is arranged so that voters can exercise their right to vote in full conditions of legality, certainty and freedom,” he said.
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