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A national referendum pushed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on whether to prosecute his predecessors for alleged corruption drew only a small fraction of voters to the polls on Sunday.

Turnout was little more than seven percent — far from the 40 percent necessary for it to have any legal bearing, the National Electoral Institute said based on an official quick count.

“A consultation wasn’t necessary to know that the people want corruption to be punished,” Jose Antonio Crespo, a political analyst at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, told AFP. That annoyed Lopez Obrador, who has repeatedly criticized the poll body and accused it of endorsing “fraud” in the past.Mexico is ranked 124th out of 179 on Transparency International’s world corruption perceptions index.

Although the vote was Lopez Obrador’s brainchild, the 67-year-old ruled out voting himself because he did not want “corrupt and hypocritical conservatism” to accuse him of vindictiveness.The referendum question proposed by Lopez Obrador named five predecessors: Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderon, and Enrique Pena Nieto, whose terms in power stretched from 1988 to 2018.

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