In 2018 Presidential Election, the PRI Will Seek to Beat Lopez Obrador with Money and Fraud Martin Moreno - SinEmbargo
go to original June 9, 2017

Meet AMLO, the Mexican Bernie Sanders (Lua Times)

"What do you think? We beat them!" Peña Nieto boasted to everyone he met, before departing for his strange and suspicious trip to Guatemala, where another PRI rogue named Javier Duarte [former governnor of Veracruz] is imprisoned [at Mexico's request, for corrupton charges].

"We beat them," Peña said.

However, behind that phrase - as cynical as it is worrying - is what the election on Sunday in the State of Mexico really was: an openly vulgar election purchased by the federal government, going unpunished, with the cabinet secretaries (Miranda, Meade, Osorio Chong, Narro, Nuño, etc) converted into vote-buying agents who offered money and public works in exchange for support of Alfredo del Mazo.

Was the election in the State of Mexico not bought by the PRI? Let us take a look.

It is estimated that 1.5 million people received financial support from the PRI (in various ways) so they would vote for that party. Of course, there is no official memorandum stating: if you receive this money, you have to vote for Alfredo del Mazo. Of course not! They are extortionists, not idiots. However, there is value in the old adage: I'll give you money, but give me your vote.

But behind that mocking, unbecoming presidential phrase and the legal objections that Morena [Movement for National Regeneration] will make to complain about electoral irregularities (it is strange that neither the PAN [National Action Party] nor the PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution] are doing so), and the obvious buying of the election in the State of Mexico, is the struggle for the 2018 Mexican presidency.

The PRI, no matter its candidate, already showed us its fangs and claws. In 2018, they will also attempt to buy the election under the title of an "Election of State", which in the next presidential election will hold more strength and meaning than ever. They gave warning last Sunday.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

Translated by Leslie Castillo Navia

Related: Mexican Leftist Seeks to Annul Votes to Overturn Key Election (Reuters)

Related: State of Mexico Race Shows Strength of López Obrador and MORENA (Buenos Aires Herald)

Related: Could Resurgent Populism Sway Mexico's Election? (Union Tribune)

Related: Mexico Elections: PRI's Pyrrhic Victory in the State of Mexico (Mexico Voices)

Related: Looking Back to the Anti-AMLO Political Discourse, His “Populism” Has Been Attacked in the Past (The News)

Related: Can Andrés Manuel López Obrador and MORENA Unite the Mexican Left and Forge a Citizens’ Revolution Ahead of the 2018 Presidential Election? (NACLA)

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