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AMLO Blames Low Voter Turnout for Referendum on INE

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the dismal turnout of barely 18 percent of eligible voters for his highly publicized revocation of mandate referendum the day before, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, April 11, admitted that he had received less than half the votes supporting his remainder in power than he had during his 2018

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Low Turnout Mars Mexico’s Revocation of Mandate Vote

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And

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