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The popular consultation that seeks to bring five former Mexican presidents to the Courts did not achieve the 40% participation required to be binding, but that will not prevent the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) from carrying out the investigation processes and condemns his predecessors. Despite the fact that less than 7% of the electoral roll participated in the consultation, the Mexican government turns the overwhelming support for Yes, with close to 90%, into an inexorable popular mandate that demands the creation of

'truth commissions'

that investigate what happened during previous administrations.

"This does not rule out the possibility of lawsuits, the authority has the right to act at all times, as long as there is evidence, that remains open. The consultation was more than anything to initiate processes as long as it was achieved with participation 40%, but in any case it is important and

hopefully the legislators can lower that quota, "

López Obrador said Monday to justify the results. Mario Delgado, president of the ruling party Morena, described the call as "a success despite the boycott of those nostalgic for neoliberalism" and assured that the Executive will propose the creation of "a Truth Commission hand in hand with the victims and a commission against the impunity of the economic crimes of neoliberalism ".

The interpretation of the results has had a much more pessimistic reading among the media and opposition leaders. Newspapers like 'Milenio' or 'El Universal' speak of a

"slight"

to the consultation, while Alejandro Moreno, president of the PRI, pointed out that "the failure of the popular consultation showed once again that Mexicans are fed up with a government that hides in the past so as not to face the present. " The leader of the PRD, Jesús Zambrano, described the appointment as

"a farce"

and the leader of the PAN, Marko Cortés, pointed out that "the whim cost 500 million pesos and only showed that Mexico no longer wants any more deceptions, that it no longer believes in Morena's occurrences ".

Among the five former presidents mentioned - Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000), Vicente Fox (2000-2006), Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) - only two have reacted to the results of the query. In an ironic tone, Fox pointed out that there was "a historic day, the lowest turnout of all time," while Calderón, for his part, valued the event as "a failure." All of them were presented as

alleged criminals

in electoral advertising, massively distributed on large posters where their faces were covered, at eye level, with the charges allegedly imputed to them, without offering evidence in exchange.

According to the National Electoral Institute (INE), a total of 7,212,741 citizens participated in the first popular consultation held at the federal level in the entire history of the country. Beyond the results, President López Obrador celebrated that Mexico is promoting, as promised in the electoral campaign, tools of participatory democracy: "It was something very important, transcendent, regardless of whether it is binding or not, a democratic process so

that no one feels untouchable,

at any level of the scale, and the people are not ceased to respect ".

Sunday's session marked a new chapter in the open war between López Obrador and the INE, a body that it intends to suppress and whom it blames for the lack of participation in the event. The independent electoral referee managed to successfully install 99.8% of the tables, but these only represented a third of those set up in the legislative elections on June 6. Morena's representative to the INE, Sergio Gutiérrez, accused the entity's president, Lorenzo Córdova, of

"sabotaging" the consultation

and organizing it "reluctantly." Córdova explained that "we could not put more boxes, as we wanted, because they prevented us by not giving us more resources." Said funds were rejected by the Government under the pretext that the INE "it is the most expensive electoral body in the world. "

The meeting also served as a prelude to the next major consultation promoted by the Government: the

revocation

of López Obrador's

mandate

. On March 21, Mexicans will have to comment on the continuity of AMLO as president of the country. "In eight months another consultation will come and many more citizens will participate and this practice will become a habit, a culture, and we will inherit it in the next generations, that is why I am happy with yesterday's results", expressed the Mexican president. What is not so clear, based on the reactions provoked by the consultation on the former presidents, is whether the Government will then comply with the popular mandate or whether it will

reinterpret the results.

in its own way, once again making binding an exercise in which the minimums established by the Mexican Constitution are not reached.

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