The PRD demonstrated at the Beaux-Arts against the Electoral Plan B

Members and supporters of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) attended the Palace of Fine Arts to protest against the secondary electoral reform, better known as Plan B, promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The mobilization arrived at the facilities with large banners with the caption My vote is not affected to announce their participation in the march which will take place next February 26.

In their demonstration, the members of the PRD called on the citizens to join the mobilization called by the opposition for the defense of the National Electoral Institute (INE) before the standards approved by the initiative of the first federal president approved at the Congress of the Union last December.

This march would be the second to be convened for the same purposes, especially given the unfinished discussion of the said reform. According to the organizers, the #MiINENoSeToca demonstration will start from the Plaza de la Constitución (Basement) to visit different avenues of the historic center; a demonstration that will be reproduced in at least 70 different cities of the country, according to the organizers.

“Democracy is fundamental for the political stability of the country, for freedoms and plurality to exist. We are PRD and we were born from the democratic struggle, we are builders of institutions and that is why the participation on February 26 is important”, published the official account of the party on Twitter.

In recent days, various public officials, political parties – PAN, PRI and PRD –, civil organizations and former electoral advisers have come out in favor of the “citizen” protest against the modifications to the electoral law, which are still in progress. final validation process.

The last modifications of the electoral plan B will be discussed this February 20 in the commissions of the Senate of the Republic, a date that was postponed from previous weeks by the legislators of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

Faced with this, various members of parties opposed to the ruling party denounced the “chutzpah” of the morenists and allies for having postponed the said deliberation, in particular because of the legal proceedings that the presidential initiative is facing before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SJNC).

And it is that, according to the dissatisfied, the delay in the discussion of the initiative would be an advantage so that the highest court of justice does not have “enough time” to analyze accordingly the points that seek to be disputed on the laws already enacted.

This situation contradicted the organizers of the march, since they assure that it could intervene in its realization. For his part, the former adviser to the National Electoral Institute, Jose Woldenbergconfirmed his presence at the “pink” demonstration in Mexico City.

It is through a video of the National Civic Front, that the former electoral official called for mobilization to defend the INE; agency which he describes as an effort by citizens to exercise their democratic right.

“It took generations of efforts to build norms and institutions capable of guaranteeing free, fair and impartially organized elections… (Plan B) runs counter to these efforts, and intends to destroy much of what has been built. That’s why you have to go to the Zócalo,” the former president stressed in his appeal.

In the meantime, President Andrés Manuel expressed his opinion on the said march, which he described as ““a political band”, interference from parties opposed to his government.

“But it’s good that it’s happening, because it’s without a mask, it’s like a ‘political striptease’. The king is naked, so it’s very important, we have no reason to complain because we live in interesting times,” the president said in his February 20 morning.