Press Release: Fraud in Mexican Elections

Mexico DF, July  5th 2012

To The International Media:

First, I would like to emphasize on the fact that what Mexican authorities, federal institutions, such as the Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE ), and several functionaries call “a clean as expected” election, this is completely false; the virtual winner of the election, candidate for the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), Mr Enrique PEÑA NIETO, broke different laws that the very IFE set for this elections.

An example of a broken electoral law is Mr PEÑA’s campaign.  He clearly overpassed the maximum expenditure set in $167,260,766.68 MXN (approximately $12.5 million USD), by the IFE.  The excessive amount of billboards, TV and radio commercials, videos of PRI staff handing out from t-shirts to stoves to $1,500.00 MXN in cash (approximately $110 USD) and last but not least, gift/grocery cards for both SORIANA and AURRERA super markets, are an easy tell on how the party spared no expense in securing votes for its candidate.  Two Soriana stores were closed on Monday after receiving an unprecedented attendance, all of the shoppers ready with their cards, some of them with no money at all.

Based on the media exposure the candidate received since his triumph as Mexico’s state governor, suspicion also rises on the amount of time TV companies like TELEVISA and MILENIO, and editorial groups like the Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), gave him.  The Guardian recently posted that it was TELEVISA who gave Mr PEÑA NIETO a “soap-opera” image to position him well among its viewers, even marrying him to actress Angélica RIVERA on November 27, 2010 and following each one of their moves ever since.

Back on the IFE and their diligences, the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP in its Spanish acronym) showed inconsistencies too.  Districts with more than 100 % of votes counted, citizens sending pictures of their district results with clear numbers and the PREP reporting them as unreadable, and actuary studies delivered to Mr Andrés LOPEZ OBRADOR, candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) that show that the tendency of the PREP’s real time reports ( updated every 5 minutes ) are statistically impossible.

It is also important to bring up that Mr Leonardo VALDEZ ZURITA, President Chancellor of the IFE, pushed, on the night of the election, his 23:45 speech to 23:15, declaring that the quick count done by the IFE, put Mr PEÑA as the winner, thus allowing president CALDERON to come at 23:30 to congratulate the virtual winner of the election. In addition, after this announcement all the people started to show their discontent in all the social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. Is also imperative to mention that México calls for a 2nd round, 62% of its voting population did not vote for PEÑA.

We could keep on writing all of the irregularities we have witnessed and documented, but what we need is your help in not publishing what the Mexican News Agencies report to you; we need you to come and watch with your own eyes that the people did not vote and do not want Mr PEÑA as their president.  Mr PEÑA was elected by the media, their rich politician allies and their rich cronies who will benefit, or keep on benefitting from sitting Mr PEÑA on the presidential chair.  This isn’t democracy, México cries out for a real democracy.

We are able to provide documents, videos and proof of what is written here and much more.  Please don’t hesitate to contact us with information or interview requests.  Again, we need your help.

Thank you.

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