MEXICO CITY (process.com.mx).–At 8:21 a.m., President Andrés Manuel López Obrador left the National Palace with his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller to vote at the polling station in section 4748, on 4 Moneda Street, in the center of Mexico City. In 24 years it is the first time that he did not vote as a candidate; at 18, for the presidency.
He left through the door of number 1 of Moneda, which for almost three months was under repair, after being thrown down by protesters who attended the protest of mothers and fathers of the Ayotzinapa normalistas, who disappeared in 2014.
As he passed by, the press asked him: “Everything in peace?” and the president only responded “cheer up.”
He walked between some sections with fences made up of military women dressed in civilian clothes who left from the same door through which the president left, they, by dozens, shortly after 7 in the morning to spread out in groups of two or three, throughout the entire The street that was also blocked from corner to corner with metal fences to prevent the passage of the general population and only a few minutes before the president’s departure they allowed the neighbors who belonged to that box to enter.
The president entered the Museum of Art of the Ministry of Finance, in the Old Palace of the Archbishopric and almost ten minutes later, including the time he dedicated to taking photos with polling station officials, signing books and receiving hugs, he left the headquarters in the last election in which he will participate as President of the Republic.
He was the first voter to enter that module, although there was already a line waiting for the vote of the head of the federal Executive.
Outside, a little further away, shouts of support were heard: “It is an honor to be with Obrador,” as he entered the box. Upon leaving him: “Honest, brave, that’s my president.”
Gutiérrez Müller and President López Obrador entered together where they marked the ballots, but the one who took the most time was the president.
Only Cepropie had access to the president’s vote; However, the cameras remained very close to the federal president that the selection he issued could be appreciated because he left the table without folding the ballots, to locate where they should be deposited and not make a mistake.
While waiting for the historian Gutiérrez Müller to leave, he also greeted those who were waiting to enter to vote and those who were allowed to be behind the military dressed in civilian clothes. A child tried to give him a stuffed “amito” and the president avoided receiving it: “They are going to brush me” and pointed towards the media cameras. In return he blew her a kiss, which was responded with another.
She left with her voter ID card in her hand, which she kept raised almost the entire way until she returned to Moneda 1. She did not give any further statements and when she asked him “Who did you vote for?”, the historian responded “Silence, the vote is secret.” .
Last week he assured that he will remain in the National Palace attentive to the progress of the election day and that he would not give any message until the electoral authority pronounces on the results; Also, he recalled that the counting process lasts a few more days.
Still in the 2021 election, in the midst of the pandemic for which it was also one of the few times that he had to put on a face mask, the president came out after his vote and launched a “long live democracy.” This time he remained silent. “A message to the population,” he insisted and his response, again, was: “Courage.”
