translated from Spanish: I don’t know why he bothers, AMLO tells inE president

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recognized this morning that it is legally up to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to take care of the elections; however, he said that he can have an opinion and exercise his right of expression like any citizen.
At a press conference, he commented that if he found out they are buying votes or using budget money to favor a party or candidate, “as any citizen am I obliged to report it, or can I not?”
Read: INE responds to AMLO: elections in Mexico already have guardian
“I will guarantee free voting, clean and free elections, it is a compromise, I do not know why the president of the INE bothers. We should all help report if we know of fraud.”
López Obrador said that the INE does its job but noted that he does not want fraud or simulation, “that no one should turn a blind eye in relation to the sacred right of democracy, but that the will of the people is respected because it is a sacred right”.
“If I know of an illicit act I will not be cover- they do their job and I as a citizen and president I want there to be no fraud or simulation in this country, and that the will of the people is respected,” he said.
The representative recalled some inE inconsistencies in its history. He noted that in 2012, his movement promoted a complaint against PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto as a campaign cap and in response, there was a similar complaint against his candidacy. “And do you know who ends up accused of oversteering the campaign cap? Us.”
Read: Go AMLO now against INE, Cofece, Sipinna and CRE: “they don’t work, just simulate”
Yesterday, the president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, responded on social networks to President López Obrador, after the representative said that, as a citizen, he will be “guardian” of the proper functioning of the next elections in the country, to avoid possible attempts at fraud.
“Mexico already has a guardian of elections, an autonomous body that is the guarantor of our democracy,” Córdova said, adding that the NSO “monitors and monitors that all public officials at all three levels of government, and of all parties, adhere to the Constitution and the rules of the democratic game,” now and during the next election process 2020-2021.
López Obrador accused the INE of being “the most expensive election organization apparatus in the world”, without this having served to guarantee free elections in Mexico.
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Original source in Spanish