translated from Spanish: The day of popular consultation concludes, INE begins with the counting of votes

At 18:00 hours this Sunday concludes the day of the popular consultation with the closure of the receiving tables installed by the National Electoral Institute (INE); the ballot boxes with the ballots must be transferred to the District Boards so that the computation of the consultation can be done, in which the citizens pronounced on whether decisions of political actors that violated the rights of victims should be clarified.
It is expected that the president of the INE, Lorenzo Cordova, will announce at 22:00 hours a Quick Count with the preliminary results of the citizen exercise, the first in the history of the country.
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Although 99.98% of the planned receiving tables were installed, the day was marked by scenes that showed a low turnout, when, for the result of the consultation to be binding, it is required that at least 40% of citizens registered in the Nominal List, equivalent to 37.4 million people, vote.
Throughout the day, activists and members of Morena criticized the INE, which they have begun to blame with the argument that, if the required participation is not achieved, it was because the electoral umpire did not give enough publicity to the exercise, that he installed few tables or that he assigned them to distant places.
“The INE warned us that it was not going to put the number of boxes that were in the election (on July 6), which was desirable, because in addition people already had in their heads where they had voted. They had just voted a little over a month ago, almost 2, so it would have been easier. However, we only have a third,” Mario Delgado, president of Morena, said at a news conference.

“Well, the pretext is money, it is one more pretext because they do not want the people to command, they do not like that, they have a deep contempt for the will of the people, for the decision of the people.”
Ariadna Bahena, a member of the National Committee for the Popular Consultation, said the organization received complaints from people who accused that they did not locate their polling place today, in the middle of the day.
“The INE is guilty of all the obstacles, all the lack of information, all the confusion that the citizens have at the moment about where the boxes are, what time they are going to be opened, if there are special boxes. Yes, it is responsible because the Constitution and the Law of Popular Consultation establishes that the INE is the only institution that has the powers to carry out this democratic process, and the only thing it had to guarantee to the Mexicans was the information of the location of the boxes explicitly and on time, “she said interviewed in a box of the Colonia Roma , CDMX.
The activist explained that, regardless of whether the minimum participation is achieved for the consultation to be binding, it is a citizen achievement that this exercise has taken place for the first time in the history of the country.
“It is still very low compared to the participation that is expected of 40% of the Nominal list, but that does not mean that this exercise is not winning, it has already won the popular consultation in the sense that for months it allowed us citizens to mobilize and put at the center of the debate the grievances and the reparation of the damage to the victims , and it has also allowed us to identify the institution that must guarantee the democratic exercise, an institution that has not allowed us citizens to get involved and not to strengthen participatory democracy in the country, which is so necessary. Beyond a number, the participation of the people is avid and goes with a lot of information and conviction from the citizenry, not from the INE, “he said.
Citizens who came to participate agreed that the consultation is to define whether the former presidents should be prosecuted for their decisions, an interpretation that has been promoted by the ruling party and Morena.
“I understand that it is to see all the anomalies that former presidents have done in previous years, but hopefully with all this we will start doing something that had not happened. For all the corruption that has taken place, the injustices, everything that has happened to us, that we are living in a time with a lot of fear, a lot of terror, there is so much death, there are people who are living terrifyingly in all the states,” said María Cleotilde Bautista Ramírez, 62.
The citizen pointed out that the investigation of decisions of politicians must cover the current government and its officials.
“I think that in peña nieto’s six-year term is where what is happening to us and is surpassing us increased the most, that’s where it started. There is a doubt that our president told us that he would guarantee us that we would be fine, and we do not know if, as he says, it is that he is dragging himself.I walk, but we are also seeing that nothing is being done to stop, we have been 2 years. I would say that this consultation should include him, not only seeing the previous ones but those who are present right now so that they can start doing what they have to do,” he said.
Margarita del Carmen Alvarez, 58, said former President Enrique Peña Nieto must be held accountable for his responsibility in the rise of violence.
“In peña nieto’s six-year term there was an extermination of Mexican youth, the blood of growth, of development, is the present and the future of Mexico, the numbers speak of an extermination of a fundamental part of a nation,” he said.
“This consultation is to become aware, when you are aware you make better decisions, and if that decision is to do justice and organize ourselves better, it is because it is needed.”
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Luis Humberto Rodriguez, 50, went to give his opinion accompanied by his young son.
“It’s to show him that you’re doing what you can or what’s necessary for him to have a better country, to give him the best he can,” he explained.
Jonas Sandoval, who had to be president of the polling station, highlighted the logistics of the INE in the distribution of electoral materials.
“Now that I have the opportunity to participate in a change, of course, of course I do, it doesn’t matter if on Sunday at 7 a.m. I have to be here,” he said.
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