Reforma, November 28, 2022
An exercise by Grupo REFORMA documented the use of 1,787 vehicles to transport supporters of President López Obrador [aka AMLO] to 25 points in Mexico City near the area of the counter-march led by the President yesterday.
MV Note: Two weeks ago, a march was held by citizens to oppose "reforms" proposed by AMLO to the National Electoral Institute (INE) which organizes and oversees Mexican elections, as well as to the electoral process:
- He would reduce the number of council members who oversee the INE and have them elected by popular vote (Morena has the support of a majority of voters).
- Popular referendums would become legally binding if they received the support of 33% of registered voters.
- Also, instead of individual candidates competing for votes, in each state, each registered party would present a list of its candidates for all offices up for election and voters would cast a single vote for one of the lists.
AMLO'S "counter march" was intended to demonstrate that his reform has more supporters than the opposition.
The comparison, made street by street, recorded the license plate number, the origin, and the type of vehicle used by the organizers. The comparison showed that there were:
One thousand 87 buses, 8 [double] Metrobúses [of the Mexico City government], 319 microbuses, 265 vans, 84 private cars, 20 combis [a type of van], and 4 taxis.
The REFORMA team worked from dawn yesterday with numbered forms and obtained photographic records of the 1,787 vehicles, both their license plates and the type of vehicle. Only parked vehicles were examined.
About 40 collaborators participated in the exercise, including those who work in the field, photographers, videographers, designers, and information analysts. During the inspection of the vehicles, one REFORMA collaborator was attacked and beaten by bus operators on Sullivan Street, near Insurgentes.
Morena [The Movement for National Regeneration] party members thus mobilized thousands of supporters of President López Obrador...
Claudia Sheinbaum, Head of Government of Mexico City, reported that, according to a report from the Secretariat of Citizen Security [police] of the capital, about 1.2 million people attended the counter-march called by AMLO.
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