Vicente Fox demanded an “exemplary punishment” from the INE against AMLO for violating the electoral ban

The former president, Vicente Fox Quesada, called on the National Electoral Institute (INE) to penalize the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ), for violating the electoral ban, implemented since February 4, and in force until April 10 for the exercise of Mandate Revocation.

This, after the electoral body requested the Presidency to descend from the channels of the Government and the Chief Executive on the morning of March 7 for having presumed achievements of the fertilizer program, an action whose fulfillment had to be complied with within six hours.

However, the activist of the National Action Party (PAN) considered it pertinent to apply an “exemplary punishment”, since the actions of the Tabasqueño would once again be “teasing” the Institute, as well as the Mexican Constitution, he argued.

At the aforementioned morning conference, the director of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, and Victor Villalobos, Secretary of Agriculture, came to present the registered actions of the fertilizer program.

This earned them a complaint that Acción Nacional and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) filed with the Institute's Complaints Commission, whose precautionary measures were unanimously endorsed by Claudia Zavala, Adriana Favela Herrera and Ciro Murayama, who also questioned the culture of legality and the commitment of some public servants.

“It is not challenging the INE, but rather the laws in force and the Constitution (...) I hope that the Government will not continue to damage the revocation process because it can even end the level of citizen participation,” he said in a virtual session.

In addition, the INE instruction also stipulated downloading the publications that Andrés Manuel published on his official Facebook account on March 5 and 6, since, it is considered, they also include government actions.

This measure is in addition to the one that the INE established on February 16 against governors of Morena who had endorsed López Obrador through a writing, in the who, in addition, defended the commitments fulfilled by the president, in addition to pointing to him as a “social leader” who broke with the “old regime”.

“The INE asks to respect the prohibition of using or taking advantage of official channels or channels of communication to disseminate government propaganda.”

As a result, the body determined that, in fact, the attitude of the leaders was an “express and preponderant” action to disseminate the achievements and actions of the Federal Government and its leader. Therefore, it instructed the State leaders to delete this publication within three hours.

It should be recalled that on February 15, the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federation Judiciary (TEPJF) confirmed that Andrés Manuel should refrain from making any kind of promotion to the Mandate Revocation process.

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