The keys to voting at the popular consultation on August 1

After a long wait, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will proceed the consultation that will determine whether or not several former Mexican presidents should be continued for crimes allegedly committed during previous administrations.

This August 1, Mexicans will be able to attend the boxes placed by the federal government to answer “Yes” or “No” to the question:

Do you agree or not that the relevant actions be taken, in accordance with the constitutional and legal framework, to undertake a process of clarifying the political decisions taken in recent years by political actors, aimed at guaranteeing justice and the rights of potential victims?

The consultation has generated a series of campaigns against which promote not to vote, since they ensure that the exercise is a “waste” of millions of pesos to accuse the former executives. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto acts allegedly committed while in power.

Popular consultation is the instrument of participation for which the citizens, by issuing a free, secret, direct, personal and non-transferable vote, participate in the decisions of the public authorities concerning one or more questions of national or regional importance competence of the Federation, so that This resource will be used to find out the opinions of people in Mexico compared to past administrations.

The initiative for the consultation was promoted by the President of Mexico himself, but it was the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) that endorsed the exercise and specifically developed the issue. Finally, the exercise will be the responsibility of the National Electoral Institute (INE) which is in charge of the organization.

In order to participate in the consultation, INE announced that citizens They must be registered on the electoral list, have a valid voting card with photo and maintain sanitary measures to avoid the contagion of COVID-19.

The government agency stressed that credentials that expired in 2019 and 2020 will still be considered valid until August 1. On the other hand, they asked citizens to maintain health measures against the pandemic such as the compulsory use of face masks, the application of antibacterial gel before and after the vote, respect for the healthy distance and even recommended. bring your own pen.

Unlike other electoral exercises, the popular consultation will not have special voting booths. Very well, Mexicans must locate their voting table on the page ubicatumesa.ine.mx, where they will be asked electoral entity and section to determine the location of your box.

In total, the INE announced that 57,000 would be placed The voting tables will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on August 1.

The López Obrador government demands that 40% of voters turn out to vote for it to be binding. However, over the past few months and as the date approached, criticism of the exercises has grown stronger and questioned the need for this type of exercise.

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