Monday, July 28, 2008

Sparking Birthday Candles

The people have spoken

■ The participation would have doubled had it not been for the government campaign against

The consultation was a success, but mostly a clean process: Camacho

■ The NAP talk irregularities, "but if they have something relevant and would have presented"

■ Arnaldo Córdova: notably, it has left people to say yes, "this is an exercise in citizen

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Victor Manuel Camacho Solis said last night: "Against all expectations, the public consultation on the reform, Pemex, has been successful, satisfying and, above all, a clean process." Said: "Despite the ongoing campaign to discredit the abuses of government advertising in favor of Felipe Calderón's initiative and not having access to television to call for participation, the results are very good, is a success."

The coordinator of the consultation stressed that "if there had been all this campaign against the civic exercise, would have easily doubled citizen participation."

Nevertheless, Camacho Solis said: "We are delighted, the results are the highest they have been taken at a consultation of this kind and, above all been a clean process."

At a press conference said that outside the Federal District, ie, in the nine states in which the query was made, installed 7 000 390 reception tables, ie there were more than 6 000 500 which were estimated ".



Camacho Solis recalled: "We said if we managed a million participants, we feel satisfied, if we got a million and a half, it would be a success, and above that would still be better, those are the parameters that may be feasible, because we had no access to television, because no programs for the query, and yes, however, continuing a campaign to discredit him, and against it is clear that there must be an impact. "

Nothing to worry

Calm, satisfied with the results that gave him to know, the coordinator of the consultation said: "We have no information that we worry. We see statements by the PAN, say they have videotaped-day irregularities in the citizen, "who knows what they say, frankly I do not think they have anything relevant if they had something and they had submitted.

"They were expecting big scree City districts, such as Iztapalapa, but waited because the process was neat, clean and there was extensive surveillance by the media, especially in the capital and the metropolitan area ".

Camacho Solis insisted: "Despite the attacks, the results are satisfactory. Most troubling is that our practice could mess and there is no information in that regard. The exercise of citizenship did parties and social organizations, and against all that waiting, the detractors, that nothing happened; was a clean process, because all joined the defense of an important cause, the defense of oil. "

In the press conference insisted on the number of participants or percentage, and said he had no data, which later would be released by another body, but said: "This participation can not be like a constitutional choice, everyone we knew, our benchmark are similar exercises, for example, the last to be made in the city is green and the consultation involved 300 thousand people, the Mexico state government and called for an assistance was between 5 000 and 10 000 participants; other parameters are. "
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But, he added, with the percentage of citizens who, according to polls, are against the efforts of Felipe Calderon, who are between 66 and 71 percent. GEA / AISA, the survey further biased in favor of the government, gives 45 percent of citizens against it. " Camacho Solís

abounded that this consultation is a learning process. "We will force everyone, not just to the progressive forces, but the PRI and the PAN, to take a step to what has been offering long, at least 15 years, which is the establishment of direct democracy, there are initiatives in Congress, one of which was signed by Felipe Calderon when he was a federal deputy. "

For the questions about the cost of the visit, Camacho Solis said, "was done with minimal resources, the 25 thousand people who participated received no salary, and that seems like a great merit."

At that conference, the writer Guadalupe Loaeza, who participated as an observer, said that "from 9:30 in the morning I went through the colonial streets of Rome, the Countess, when I voted, and I saw many people in the first. Boxes were installed. I went to San Cosme, Juarez, and I saw people who went with their children to vote.

"In Polanco, Lomas, there were so many people, but there were the boxes, people went quiet, I realized that the peace in the query passed without violence or load; there was no disorder. So far, I reported only a disorder in Hidalgo, where some nuns said the consultation was of the devil. Although television programs was not consultation, and declarations Germain splayed Martinez, PAN national leader, there were people who came out to demonstrate, were to rule, says Manuel (Camacho) is a learning process. "

Meanwhile, Arnaldo Córdova political scientist told the conference that "The data are just coming, but not all those who participated voted no, there is a high voting yes. They were not rushing to say no to Calderon's initiatives, the citizens were to vote their conviction.

"I was hoping that everyone was saying no, but it is remarkable that people have come to say yes to Calderon's reforms, that is a civic exercise. It is a public consultation, and it is very important to me that people have been saying yes. "

the morning, in another press conference, Camacho Solis reported that Mexico City had installed until noon 97 percent tables recipients, and in the states, coverage was 70 percent.



Zany means: THE PEOPLE ARE NOT DUMB!

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