"I Am the 132" Requests to Be Observer in Elections Prensa Latina
go to original May 29, 2012

Members of student movement "I Am the 132" submitted their request to the Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico (IFE) to take part in elections next July 1 as observers, according to reports.

"We welcome young people and wish there will be 132,000 observers, because we will set up 143,000 polling booths and if we had at least one university student there, it would be a great news to our democracy," said Leonardo Valdes, IFE president.

Activists of "I Am the 132" have said they would appear at the IFE headquarters to formalize their registration as electoral observers, daily Milenio stated.

This student movement emerged only two weeks ago, after rejection to the visit by presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Enrique Peña Nieto, to the Ibero-American University on May 11, which gives new nuances to the electoral process in Mexico.

Constant protests against Peña Nieto and information manipulation have been held in this capital and other cities of the country since May 18.

Young people have even submitted their list of demands to request democratization of media, freedom of expression and right to information.

Speaking about "I Am the 132", judge Armando Maitret of the Electoral Court of the Federal District (TEDF), told Prensa Latina that this student movement will influence the future.

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