Mexico: Writers, Academics and Researchers Call for Tactical Voting Prensa Latina
go to original June 22, 2012

In the middle of an increasingly heated electoral environment Mexican writers, academicians and researchers called to exercise tactical voting and to support the candidate of the left Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

"Now is time for the useful vote, let us close ranks around the democratic change, let's give peace a chance," poses a statement of some 100 personalities from the intellectual world.

If successful, they warned, it would prevent the authoritarian restoration that represents Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of the coalition Commitment for Mexico of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Ecologist (PVEM).

The signatories stressed that the call to vote for Lopez Obrador does not make them necessarily supporters of his movement, or relieve them of responsibility, that as citizens, they have to keep the constructive criticism on government.

Among those who signed the document are Sara Sefchovich, Juan Villoro, Lorenzo Meyer, Jesus Robles Maloof and Damian Alcazar.

Nine days before the election on Sunday July 1, most of the surveys keep Peña Nieto on top in the preferences of voters, ahead of Lopez Obrador for 15 to 20 points.

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