Without stripping away the investiture, in a letter addressed to “lay faithful, members of consecrated life, deacons and clerics” of the Archdiocese of Mexico, this so-called “citizen” exhorts them to “participate in an informed and responsible manner on election day.” from June 2nd.
MEXICO CITY (apro).- As “citizens” the members of the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate (CEM) have urged voting since last May 1 and this day the 17th, 15 days before the electoral process, their superior, the archbishop Primate of Mexico, Carlos Aguiar Retes, insists on the same call.
Without stripping away the investiture, in a letter addressed to “lay faithful, members of consecrated life, deacons and clerics” of the Archdiocese of Mexico, this so-called “citizen” exhorts them to “participate in an informed and responsible manner on election day.” from June 2nd.
“We make an insistent call to participate in the election day,” the letter states.
Returning to this and other aspects of the CEM positioning of last May 1, Cardinal Aguiar Retes encourages:
“In this same vein, we join the excellent initiative of the CEM, which has informed us of a campaign to promote voting in the next elections. The information provided by the CEM is accompanied in digital format with the slogan Let’s vote for a united and peaceful Mexico!
It is a document issued by the CEM in which a reflection is made on the elections and calls for sharing on social networks, with family and friends, the respectful call to vote.
The role of the Church in this electoral process has been subject to criticism by supporters of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in addition to different expressions by parish priests and people of the Church, who have been controversial because they consider that they violate the secularism that should prevail. in public opinion ahead of the elections.
#Release| Let’s exercise the citizen vote. pic.twitter.com/NzCnBZu0wD
— Primate Archdiocese of Mexico (@ArquidiocesisMx) May 17, 2024
