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Mexicans in the United States will vote in Mexico’s presidential election this Sunday with a sense of “forgetfulness.” for being excluded from the proposals of three candidates and
Mexicans in the United States will vote in Mexico’s presidential election this Sunday with a sense of “forgetfulness.” for being excluded from the proposals of three candidates and with the feeling that This year’s options are ‘unpromising’say representatives of this community.
“Parties are interested in two things: the budget and votes, and migrants represent neither one nor the other. Therefore, they are not afraid of us and do not care about making us look bad,” says Avelino Mesa, secretary general of the non-partisan association Fuerza Migrante.
According to the National Electoral Institute (INE), In these elections, 258,461 people will be able to vote from abroad.the largest in history: 97 million people were called to the polls.
Until May 26, the institution reported that it had received more than There are 93,000 votes by mail or online, and about 16,000 people are expected to vote in person at 23 consular posts on June 2.election Day.
Meza, who has promoted foreign voting and fought for migrant representation in the Mexican Congress since founding the foundation, believes at least 150,000 will votecompared with 98,470 registered in 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador won.
Maria Elena, a 61-year-old teacher, believes that These elections were marked by “unprofessionalism” on behalf of three presidential candidates: Xochitl Galvez, Claudia Sheinbaum and Jorge Alvarez Maines.
“I saw all the debates, but they were fighting each other, they lacked seriousness,” he says. EFE woman born in Michoacan who lived in Victorville, California for 35 years.
Although it is considered non-partisan, voted for the opposition Galvez because he has an idea that In Morena, “everyone is very dishonest.”
This also explains that feelings of uncertainty during visits to Mexico increased and that this question bothers him, since one of his desires is to spend six months in Mexico when he retires.
Hannah, 37, is a resident of Boston and originally from Mexico City, The registration date has passed, and since there will be no place in the specified city where you can cast your vote in person, you will be left without a vote. I would choose Sheinbaum.
I did not take sides, but when he was in charge of the delegation where I lived, he did many good things from which I benefited, and in my case I did not see other parties favoring the people.
This also explains that one of the issues that worries you most in Mexico is femicide.5,000 in six years AMLO.
But Hannah also admits that, having lived in the United States without documents for about five years, He is more concerned about the US presidential elections, which will take place on November 5.in which incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete.
“The US elections will have dramatic consequences for who takes office as president of Mexico. and I think the candidates don’t know that,” says political scientist and former Latin American studies professor at Pomona University Miguel Tinker Salas.
Severiano Iturbide, 51 years old, originally from Puebla A resident of Santa Ana, California, believes it is a shame that candidates are legally prohibited from campaigning in the United States.
After completing his eight hours of construction work a day, Iturbide goes to restaurants and the Mexican consulate to help people complete procedures and talk about the importance of voting in this election.
This Sunday he will be an election observer in Santa Ana.and chose to vote in person to relive the last electoral experience he had in Mexico in 2000, when Vicente Fox won the election.
Severiano Iturbide. | Photo: EFE.
Although he prefers not to say who he plans to vote for, he says he is excited that a woman is going to take the reins of the country into her own hands.
Whoever wins, we will have Mexico’s first female president. I think this gives us an opportunity to break away from the clichés that the world has given us about us being sexist.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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