Leftist Lopez Obrador Calls for Citizen Support vs. Vote Buying in June Elections Prensa Latina
go to original May 31, 2017

AMLO assured that former teacher Delfina Gomez, Morena standard-bearer, is very well located in the polls (Reuters/Carlos Jasso)

The president of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Manuel Lopez Obrador, has requested citizen support to defend vote during the June 4th elections in several Mexican states, particularly Mexico.

Lopez Obrador posted through the social networks a manual to identify what he described as an operation to buy vote by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, of President Enrique Peña Nieto), which has always ruled in that entity.

This is an orchestrated operation to 'bring people' to places called 'friendly houses,' to give them money in exchange for votes, he said.

The Morena leader said that the 'mafia of the power, Peña, the PRI', and his candidate for governor Alfredo del Mazo, are promoting abstention because 'with the votes they buy, they can reach them'.

He assured that former teacher Delfina Gomez, Morena standard-bearer, is very well located in the polls.

...The state of Mexico, which Peña Nieto ruled before becoming the president of the Republic, is considered as the jewel of the crown due to its high electoral population, as well as its economic weight and the influence of the PRI political class that makes life there.

Read the rest at Prensa Latina

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