Ebrard Throws Mexico Party’s Succession Plans into Question
- Ebrard says police barred his team from monitoring vote count
- Ex-foreign minister says they found issues with 14% of ballots
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Mexico’s former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, a frontrunner for the ruling party’s presidential candidacy, said the process used to pick the nominee was tainted and needs to be redone, throwing doubt on the carefully-staged system used to choose the successor to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Ebrard said in a web video Wednesday his team found anomalies in 14% of the ballots, part of a big national poll that the Morena party is doing to decide on the candidacy. After posting the video, police blocked his team from monitoring the vote count, he said in a second video, just hours before Morena is set to announce the nominee who will seek to retain power and succeed Lopez Obrador in next year’s general election.