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The first popular consultation in the history of Mexico is the last propaganda exercise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a trial of the past that seeks to turn his predecessors into alleged criminals despite the fact that the question posed does not explicitly mention them and the law does not prevents them from being investigated and convicted. This Sunday,

93 million Mexicans are called to the polls

to participate in an event with tremendous symbolic value and null legal consequences, which is celebrated between the enthusiasm of the supporters of the Mexican president and the indignation of those who consider that "justice does not is consulted ".

The question that Mexicans will have to answer today differs greatly from the one that AMLO posed in September of last year. The Supreme Court determined that it was unconstitutional to mention the five former presidents with names and surnames - as the Executive claimed - since their presumption of innocence was violated. The formula found to refer to them, without citing them, is an exercise in linguistic juggling that has turned the question into ambiguous and inconsequential: "Do you agree or not that the pertinent actions be carried out, in accordance with the constitutional framework and legal, to undertake a process of clarification of the political decisions taken in the past years by political actors,

aimed at guaranteeing justice and the rights of the possible victims

? ".

López Obrador did not like the question either, which he described as "unclear", and assured that he will not participate because "revenge is not my strength (...) sorry, yes, I forget, no." Despite this, the president has encouraged all Mexicans to vote.

Around 60,000 polls will be open today throughout the country to collect the votes of a consultation

that, to be binding, must participate 40% of the electoral roll, about 37 and a half million people.

The organization of the consultation has been a challenge for the National Electoral Institute (INE), since it has not received the funds required to carry it out. In his open war against the body that he has promised to liquidate,

López Obrador denied them the requested resources and accused them of being "the most expensive apparatus in the world for organizing elections

." Finally, the INE has only been able to install half the polling stations and has had to reuse the resources deployed during the legislative elections last June.

The malaise within the INE is evident, according to his advisor Ciro Murayama explains to El Mundo: "One way to damage institutions is to drown them financially,

we have seen that austerity can turn into austericide

. The democratic ecosystem in Mexico is being contaminated. by government decisions ". Murayama does not go into assessing the relevance of the consultation, "it is our constitutional duty to carry it out", but he does not hide that the question is "very suigéneris" and that "it does not contribute to the certainty of what its consequences would be."

The INE counselor believes that the president's systematic attacks on autonomous organizations come because "AMLO has not assimilated the political change that Mexico has experienced in recent years, on the contrary, he has animosity towards a good part of its results, such as autonomous institutions or the division of powers ". The decision to judge his predecessors responds to a strategy promoted by the same campaign that led him to the Presidency: his project, dubbed the 'Fourth Transformation', came to bury the so-called "neoliberal period", led by 5 former presidents to those who accuse, without offering evidence, of the commission of alleged crimes.

He points out Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) for allegedly having benefited his relatives with public works, Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000), for the scandal of the Banking Protection Fund for Savings, Vicente Fox (2000-2006 ) for having participated in an alleged electoral fraud, Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) for his well-known "war on drugs" and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2017), for "obvious acts" of corruption.

Their names do not appear on the ballot and polls predict that the appointment will not exceed 40% participation

Even so, the possible consequences of this consultation were offered by Mario Delgado, national president of the ruling party Morena: "regardless of the result, if people say 'we do want justice,' we will establish a truth commission until the former presidents respond for their crimes. "

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