By Cesar Reyes
02 Jun 2024, 11:08 AM EDT
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, They went to vote at one of the more than 170 thousand polling stations that were installed throughout the country.
It was after 8:20 in the morning, central Mexico time, that López Obrador walked on Moneda Street to go to box 4748 located in the Old Archbishopric Palacecurrent Museum of Art of the Ministry of Finance, and which is just one side of the National Palace in Mexico City.
Upon arrival at the polling station, after taking photographs with some people and saying “cheer up, cheer up!”, the president presented his voting card, took the corresponding ballots, entered one of the screens to mark his vote and deposited it in the urns the corresponding ballots.
After casting your vote, The head of the Mexican executive took his wife by the hand, walked back to the National Palace (place where he will be watching the election day) and without saying a word he showed his voting credential at all times.
Last Wednesday, June 29, during his morning conference, andThe Mexican president announced that he would go to vote as soon as the polls opened corresponding to its demarcation near the National Palace.
“As early as possibleOf course, it always takes them a while to install the booth, but I’m going to try to be there a little before eight… I do line up to wait,” he assured.
The Mexican president is expected to give a message to the nation at the end of the closing of the polls and after the president advisor of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, gave her message with the preliminary results of the election.
“We are going to speak out… I have to wait for the INE, maybe I will upload something… And the next day we are going to be here and we are going to talk more,” López Obrador commented during his morning conference on Monday, May 27.
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