AMLO minimizes the march to defend the INE and says it was a “political striptease”

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He downplayed the massive demonstration this Monday morning against his electoral reform proposal that, according to his critics, would weaken the electoral referee, and described the protest as “racist” and “classist.”

Tens of thousands of people marched on Sunday in CDMX and other cities to reject the initiative, fearing that it would give more power to the Government by changing the way in which councilors are elected. National Electoral Institute (INE), centralize the supervision of the elections and cut the agency’s budget.

“The INE thing was an excuse, a flag, but deep down those who demonstrated yesterday did so against the transformation that is taking place (carrying out) in the country, they did so in favor of the privileges they had before of the government that I represent,” AMLO said in his regular morning conference.

When comparing Sunday’s protest to a “political striptease” of his opponents, he reiterated his position that his electoral reform proposal would strengthen democracy rather than weaken it, as critics argue.

They did it in favor of corruption, they did it in favor of racism, in favor of classism, of discrimination, that is the bottom line,” he added about those attending the demonstration, whose power of convocation he disdained.

“Not many people participated,” he told the estimate between 50,000 and 60,000 participants in the marchwhen the capital authorities estimated them at between 10,000 and 12,000 and the organizers spoke of hundreds of thousands.

The president, who presented the plan in April, has long criticized electoral authorities, even accusing them of helping cement his defeats when he ran for president in 2006 and 2012. In both cases, he denounced “fraud” in the elections. voting.