⁍ Mexico’s government on Monday made a final push to sell lottery tickets for the value of the last president’s luxury jet.

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⁍ Nearly 70% of tickets have been sold ahead of a so-called ‘raffle’ on Tuesday that will give 100 winners close to $1 million each.

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⁍ The total prize money of 2 billion pesos ($95 million) loosely represents the value of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner used by prior President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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– Mexico is holding a lottery Tuesday that will give 100 winners close to $1 million each. It’s all part of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s attempt to rid the country of a private jet used by former President Enrique Pena Nieto. Lopez Obrador initially tried to sell the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, but the price was too high. Instead, he decided to hold a lottery to raise money for hospital supplies. Reuters reports that nearly 70% of the 6 million tickets sold so far have been for 500 pesos a piece. The government spent $24 million on tickets. But with just over 2 billion pesos raised, the government appeared well short of its goal of gathering money for health. “I urge everyone, everyone, to keep buying tickets,” Lopez Obrador said. Tuesday’s winners will be announced the day before Mexico’s Independence Day. The Guardian reports that Lopez Obrador said last February he was confident all 6 million tickets would be sold. There were signs that the effort was not so simple, and several newspaper columnists said not enough had been raised to make the program worthwhile. The federal Institute of Health for Wellness distributed tickets to 951 public hospitals, saying they should use any prize money for medical equipment. Yet, at a cost of nearly 500 million pesos, critics questioned why the funds weren’t allocated directly for immediate needs. “To save lives, public policies and budgetary designations should stem from knowledge and data, not from chance and propaganda,” wrote former health minister Salomon Chertorivski on Twitter.