After that Electoral Tribunal of Mexico City determined annul the election which declared the opposition candidate the winner Alessandra Rojo de la Vega of the PAN, PRI, PRD coalition, for allegedly having committed political violence against his opponent from Morena Catalina Monrealthe president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He called on Monday to not to put pressure on the electoral authorities.
The president stressed during his morning press conference on Monday that he does not want people to think that the law is only intended to benefit his movement for transformation.
“I respect what they decide and I think that there are other instances, that this is not concluded and care must be taken, because the allegations of electoral fraudwith the buying of votes, with the falsification of records, with the stuffing of ballot boxes, everything they did (before), and we suffered,” said the president.
“But, when it is a reason for cancellation, or it can be a reason for cancellation or for not recognizing a victory, the fact that there are insults, whether real or invented, is another thing. And the issue of gender-based rapeI was accused of that and I have never disrespected a woman and the candidate accused me Xochitl (Galvez)and did not proceed,” the president said.
“So we have to look at things in depth, and it’s good that there are other instances, so that people don’t think that we want the ‘funnel law’, that we only want the law to benefit us. We’re not used to that,” he explained.
“We adhere to the maxim that ‘nothing is outside the law and no one is above the law’, so we must wait for the relevant authorities to decide on this matter, and not allow speculation or conjecture,” he said.
Last week the Electoral Tribunal of Mexico City annulled the election in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office due to the alleged political gender violence that the opponent would have committed Alessandra Rojo de la Vega against the official Catalina Monreal.
According to the complaint filed by “Caty” Monreal: candidate Rojo de la Vega referred to her in a derogatory manner.
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For its part, Alessandra Rojo He argued that the capital’s Electoral Court has been pressured by Monreal’s father, the leader of the federal deputies of MorenaRicardo Monreal, so that his daughter can be the new mayor in Cuauhtémoc.