Xóchitl Gálvez, the engineer with indigenous roots who bothers the leftist ruling party

Colloquial language and casual style, Xochitl Galvezan engineer of indigenous origin, is the candidate of the main opposition alliance in Mexico for the presidential election June 2024, which is shaping up to be a duel between women.

Gálvez, 60, claims to be the first female president in the history of Mexicothe same as his potential rival from the left, the former mayor of the capital Claudia Sheinbaumfavorite of the internal contention of the ruling party.

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A few months ago, this senator from BREAD (liberal right) was emerging as a candidate for the government of Mexico City. An affront changed the course of her ambitions: she decided to launch herself for the “big” after being turned away from the presidential palace in June.

Gálvez wanted to respond in person to the president’s accusations Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwhich is launched every morning against its opponents.

“I’m going to be the next president of Mexico!”, Gálvez proclaimed two weeks later when announcing his presidential candidacy for the so-called Broad Front for Mexicomade up of the PAN, the PRI (center) and the PRD (left).

His irruption and personal profile upset the ruling party, which claims to represent and defend the poorest in the country, including indigenous communities.

Success story

Gálvez was born in the central state of Gentleman, daughter of an Otomi Indian and a mestizo mother. Her childhood was marked by domestic violence and poverty, which forced her as a child to sell jellies in order to attend school.

He came to live in a rooftop room in the capital to study computer engineering at the state National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

He specialized in robotics, artificial intelligence and sustainability to later launch a successful firm dedicated to the development of intelligent buildings.

The Financial Times newspaper gave her a lengthy profile in July, portraying her as a “self made woman” (self-made woman).

In 2003, he became a politician invited by the then president vincent fox National Action Party (PAN, liberal-conservative) to be national commissioner for the development of indigenous peoples.

Despite her closeness to the PAN, the first opposition force, she has no partisan militancy and came to the Senate as a PRD candidate.

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López Obrador has indicated Gálvez as the “power mafia candidate”, promoted by the traditional parties and businessmen who yearn to recover the “privileges” which, he affirms, they enjoyed in previous governments, before his election in 2018.

López Obrador’s attacks on Gálvez forced the intervention of the electoral authority to arrest him.

“Nobody controls me, not even my husband”, replied the candidate who has also accused the president of gender political violence.

With a fair complexion, expressive eyes and frequent smile, Gálvez habitually wears huipiles, embroidered blanket blouses or shawls, all garments of indigenous tradition.

“Proudly, the roots of my tree are ancestral”, she wrote in a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter) to respond to her detractors who accuse her of using her origins to gain space in politics.

Fighting violence “with ovaries”

Among his gifts are his abilities to communicate with an informal, frank language peppered with swear words that unleash smiles. He also usually travels around the city by bicycle.

“I don’t want thieves, or assholes (lazy), or assholes”, Gálvez said about what he looks for in his collaborators. To the insecurity that hits Mexico, he promises to fight it with “ovaries”.

For louis estradaCEO of the political consultancy Spin, the answer “enraged” of López Obrador before the candidacy of Gálvez had a “counterproductive result”.

The candidate ended up monopolizing the media agenda and exposed the president’s concern about the advance of the opposition, which previously did not have a convincing figure for the election on June 2, 2024, he explains.

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Galvez is “charismatic, fresh and spontaneous” and represents “the least flawed” of the opposition, says the analyst Hernan Gomez Bruera.

However, he augurs little success against his potential pro-government rival Claudia Sheinbaum.

According to surveys published this week by the newspapers Reforma and El Financiero, Sheinbaum leads the preferences with 46% of the intention to vote, while Gálvez appears with 31% and 37%, respectively, in those polls.

Source: Elcomercio

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