Mexico opted this Sunday for the continuity of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of the country in the mandate revocation consultation, but the participation did not reach 20%, half of the 40% of the electoral census that was necessary for the exercise to be binding .
Between 90.3% and 91.9% of the voters who went to the polls voted in favor of him continuing in office for the remaining three years of his term, while between 6.4% and 7.8% % preferred the revocation, informed the president counselor of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova.
However, the turnout was between 17% and 18.2% of voters, a figure very far from the 40% necessary for the consultation to be binding, according to the preliminary results of the INE.
The low turnout constitutes a political setback for López Obrador and support for the opposition parties that rejected the referendum and proposed non-participation.
However, Mario Delgado, national leader of López Obrador’s party, National Regeneration Movement (Morena)was satisfied at a press conference and even wore a T-shirt with the phrase “Have them so they can learn”.
“The president was scratched,” he sentenced, referring to the fact that the president achieved a better result than expected.
Delgado assured that the preliminary result of the consultation is a success for the president and for the party and considered that a good number of participation was achieved, since usually in federal elections it is not usually around 50%.
“Between 15 and 17 million people voted for the president,” he declared, that is, approximately half of the votes he obtained in the 2018 presidential elections.
The results offered by the INE are the result of a quick count that took as a sample regarding 1,800 squaresthus offering a very reliable estimate of the participation and the result of the process.
More than 92.82 million Mexicans over the age of 18 were called to the polls this Sunday.
The consultation to revoke the mandate, which the opposition parties have opposed, recommending not to participate in the vote, was considered valid or binding if 40% of the people registered on the nominal list of voters participated, that is, close to 37 million people.
Participation less than 20% it is well below what López Obrador expected to give a new impetus to his political projects in the remainder of the mandate until 2024.
The question that appeared on the ballots was: “Do you agree that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of the United Mexican States, have his mandate revoked due to loss of confidence or continue in the Presidency of the Republic until the end of the term? her period?”.
And the two response options: “That the mandate be revoked due to loss of confidence” or “That he continue in the Presidency of the Republic”
