President Andrés Manuel López Obrador highlighted this Monday (28) the “exercise democratic” of the referendum Uruguaywhere the citizens chose this Sunday to keep the Law for Urgent Consideration (LUC) of the Government in a tight vote.
There was a exercise democratic on Uruguaystill yesterday, and all the citizens participated, that is the democracy participatory”, stated the president in his morning press conference at the National Palace.
López Obrador, who has already promoted several “popular consultations”, referred to the historic referendum in which more than 2.6 million Uruguayans were called to vote to repeal 135 of the 476 articles of the LUCthe “star project” of the right-wing president Luis Lacalle Pou.
The legislation, enacted in July 2020, just three months following Lacalle Pou’s arrival, covers a wide range of contentious issues such as securityeducation and reforms friendly with the free market.
“Yesterday there was elections In uruguay, there was a referendum to see if laws that are in force were maintained or canceled considering that citizens were affected. If they were maintained, they had to vote ‘no’ and this was linked to the position of the Government of Uruguay”, narrated the Mexican leader.
With 99.65% of the votes counted, the “no”, defended by the officialismand the white voteswhich in the Uruguayan referendums are added to that option, represented 51.15%, while the “yes” vote obtained a support of 48.84%.
“It was very interesting because practically everyone votes in this referendum, the citizens of Uruguay and it is very even, 50-49, in favor of maintaining the laws”, observed the president.
López Obrador made these comments when speaking regarding the first consultation what will it have Mexico on April 10 for revoke the President.
This vote has sparked controversy because the president himself and his party, the Movement Regeneration National (Morena), promote the exercise, for which opponents have accused them of promoting propaganda in favor of “ratification.”
Speaking of referendum from Uruguaythe president questioned this Monday a ruling of the Tribunal Electoral the Judicial power of the Federation (TEPJF) that prohibits public officials from encouraging people to vote, and also criticized the National Electoral Institute (OTHER).
“Why not promote and get people to participate so that they can decide if the president continues or resigns? You don’t have to be afraid of the people, you have to be democrat really, not authoritarian disguised as a democrat,” López Obrador said following citing the Uruguayan case.
With information from EFE
