Morena’s heads and the coalition “Junto Haremos Historia” (Together we'll make history) of the Valley of Mexico and Toluca, warned the existence of “red flags” in the east of the territory to the polling day of next Sunday, in the municipalities controlled by “Antorcha Popular”, where they registered violent incidents in recent weeks. And exist the latent risk that the police being used to stop the vote, just as clash groups which already make their campings.

In two press conferences made in separated ways in the Valley of Mexico and in this city, the Morena state leadership and multiple “morenistas” candidates requested security conditions in the zone to the election day of 1st of July. (Morenistas: Allies of MORENA party)

The leader of MORENA in the State of Mexico, Horacio Olivares, explained in the capital, that in Ixtapaluca exists a “red flag” due to the “slight polite” methods which used the PRI organization “Antorcha Popular” to put pressure on the vote of the zone and maintain the control, reason whereby he make an invitation to the state authorities to affirm the security conditions, but also the municipal authorities don’t release the police officers in the polling day to press to the electors.

He said, in general, it expects a high participation with a trawling of the coalition that Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador (AMLO) leads in all State of Mexico, but it exists some zones like Ixtapaluca with a few “red flags.”

Also, he said that exists a latent risk in the village of Chimalhuacan, where since a month, it reports within of the General Council of the Instituto Electoral del Estado de México (IEEM), - Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico- a direct assault to the brigade women when they were spread Morena advertising. They were chase and vacated with gunshots by Antorchistas.

In this sense, he makes an invitation for the election day of the next Sunday doesn’t have any intervention nor the use of the municipal police, because it has the experience of their use in other processes to intimidate or press to the electors.

At the same time in Ixtapaluca, candidates to local and federal deputies and to the municipal presidency in Ixtapaluca, launched a wake-up call to the state government and to the FEPADE, to avoid, like the last time, Antorcha Campesina use the municipal police for frightened the citizens and suppress the vote the next 1st of July. Felipe Rafael Arvizu, Candidate to Federal Deputy for the XII district, with the other candidates requested the Army, Navy and Federal Police presence for the previously mentioned.

Mary Delgado

Translator: Pamela Ortiz Ríos