Pepe Yunes called the Mandate Revocation a rejection of AMLO and criticized Morena's pretexts: “They are half truths”

After the preliminary results of the consultation for the revocation of mandate, the deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the State of Veracruz, José Francisco Yunes Zorrilla, spoke to Infobae Mexico about the democratic exercise and participation that citizens had.

On the work of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Pepe Yunes described its work in organizing the consultation as positive, contrary to the speech used by the Morena Regeneration Movement party (Morena), who explained the reasons why the INE had tried to impede participation .

Faced with this position, the federal deputy stated that it is regrettable that “even though its compliance is public and notorious, it is being spared and singled out, as part of a strategy to try to weaken its prestige and legitimacy”.

Regarding the words of the leader of the Morenista bench Mario Delgado, in which he criticized the small number of polling places for the consultation, the deputy for Veracruz criticized the speech and classified this exhibition as “discursive pretexts” to the lack of citizen participation.

“The INE did not place the boxes for a presidential election because the majority of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies spared his budgets. What we can no longer tolerate is that these half-truths and these repeated speeches can have a place when they lack support.”

Along the same lines, José Francisco described it as a failure for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, if in the Revocation consultation he did not obtain the same number of votes as he did in the 2018 presidential election.

“It would be a huge disaster if the president did not have the 30 million 100 thousand votes with which he legitimately reached the presidency. Every vote I lose has a clear and unquestionable interpretation of rejection of poor performance.”

With less than 0.2 per cent of the citizen participation computed by INE, the Head of Government of Mexico City, together with all the governors of the cherry party, published a communiqué celebrating the ratification of the president, so in the eyes of the PRI deputy, it was a sign of the true intentions of the consultation.

“It reflects what the Mandate Revocation meant to them: to demonstrate that the President of the Republic fulfilled a campaign commitment, which overwhelmed the percentage of acceptance and use it to try to generate an environment and perception that is extremely hostile against the INE or against the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation (TEPJF)”.

Pepe Yunes described to Infobae Mexico that the revocation consultation could be detrimental to the processes legally constituted each six-year period and could be considered as an element that generates uncertainty, so he questioned its continuity.

He also compared it with other countries that have implemented it and mentioned with grace that the Mandate Revocation, as such, has only been implemented in Venezuela, according to his words.

“What is a fact is that the Mandate Revocation is a figure that exists in very few countries. It practically occurs only in parliamentary regimes, while coalitions are lost or to advance elections, but the Revocation of Mandate is practically found in Venezuela. It can be an instrument that introduces a lot of uncertainty to legitimately constituted governments,” he said.

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