Rude messages at the ballot box in Sonora: “I will change my vote for my missing son”

One of the most exacerbated problems on the national scene is the large number of murders, kidnappings, “uprisings”, feminicides and other crimes which result in the disappearance of people. Faced with the difficult situation in the State of Sonora, a group encouraged the population to file a complaint on this issue on this day of “the biggest elections in history”.

It was the collective Sonoran Seeker Warriors who called on citizens to come and vote this Sunday but also, denounce missing persons in the state until now ruled by PRI Claudia Pavlovich and in the vast majority of the national territory, where the number of millions of missing persons has increased in recent years.

It is in their profiles on social media platforms that the group communicated that when presenting themselves at the polling station to vote, each person who wishes can fold next to your ballot a sheet of paper with a message addressed to the authorities of the entity and state applicants with respect to the requested responses regarding Mexicans who have not been found.

This is how we can read it in his appeal on social networks in favor of the visibility of enforced disappearances: “Vote with civility and respect, without provoking or falling into provocations. Let’s not forget our con the message to the government ‘I change my vote for my missing person’ well folded to put them in the ballot box with our vote, calmly and without showing off ”, can we read in the Publish from Facebook.

Attached to the message were “examples” of how the hard-hitting message can be sent to polling station authorities: “Today I exercise my right to vote”, “Because my son has the right to be searched “,” No to the FGR law which does not respect this right “,”I give you my vote in exchange for your search for my missing son “, “They took them alive, we want them alive” are just a few of the messages that can be read in the letter.

The Guerreras Buscadoras group from Sonora has already found dozens of bodies in the state, which have been recovered and handed over to their families. It is a non-profit group that It is dedicated to the work of broadcasting and reporting on people deprived of their liberty and missing. exert political pressure and trigger independent research.

After completing the day of June 6, the Preliminary Election Results Program (PREP) of the State Electoral Institute He is preparing to publish the preliminary results concerning the candidates for the post of governor of the state. The countdown to announce who will replace Claudia Pavlovich in the 2021-2027 period will start at 8:00 p.m. (Central Mexico Time), as reported by PREP.

The Sonora elected 664 officials: they voted to elect a governor or governor, 72 municipal presidencies, 21 relative majority deputations, 12 proportional representation deputations, 72 receiverships and 486 regidurías.

The votes in the entity will determine its result between Ernesto Gándara for the PRI-PAN-PRD alliance; Alfonso Durazo for Morena, Ricardo Robinson for Movimiento Ciudadano, David Cuauhtémoc Galindo for progressive social networks, Carlos Ernesto Zararáin for the PES and María del Rosario Fátima Robles for Fuerza México.

More than 1,500 elements of the National Guard watched on election day in Sonora on June 6. 350 agents were deployed to Hermosillo, and the rest were distributed to other locations in the entity: Agua Prieta, Guaymas, Cananea, Obregón, Puerto Peñasco, Navojoa, Caborca, Huatabampo, Nogales and Magdalena.

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