Guadalajara, June 5. The lead of just 3.8 percentage points between gubernatorial candidate Pablo Lemus and the Citizen Movement candidate Claudia Delgadillo of the Let's Keep Making History coalition led the coalition's constituent parties (Morena, PT, PVEM, Futuro, and Hagamos) to announce they will demand a vote-by-vote recount and take the election to court.
Mario Delgado, president of Morena, arrived in Jalisco and announced an army of lawyers to defend Delgadillo's victory . Starting today, he will be monitoring the district counts to demand that each polling station where there is no legible tally sheet be reviewed.
He stated that in the state, the Morena coalition won 15 of 20 federal districts and 13 of 20 local districts, with victories in at least 50 of the 125 municipalities; it also led in the Senate and presidential elections.
"It was a resounding victory, and when you win everything, it's obvious that you also win the governorship, but we're facing dubious, factional, or at the very least, opaque conduct by the local electoral authority," he said.
In this regard, he offered some comparisons between the federal and state counts, such as in the first federal district, where the PREP closed with 181,161 votes; while in the first local district, it only collected 141,216 votes.
The same occurred in District 17, with 160,953 votes counted at the federal level and 71,960 at the local level; and in District 5, with 172,466 votes at the federal level and 122,794 at the local level.
"They want the public to perceive that there is a winner; that's the political manipulation they've used, the strange handling of the local electoral authority. There's political manipulation of the inefficiencies of this IEPC," said Mario Delgado.
