“You have to tell the president not to get involved,” Gálvez urges his possible rival

“We know each other well. I respect her. But he has to tell the president (López Obrador) that he not interfere”, launches the opposition candidate Xochitl Galvezwhich accuses of continuity Claudia Sheinbaumhis most likely rival for the presidency of Mexico in 2024.

The campaign will beof contrasts”, warns Gálvez, a 60-year-old senator of indigenous roots, in an interview with AFP after she was anointed on Sunday as a candidate for a coalition that includes the conservative BREAD and the exhegemonic PRI.

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“She wants to continue doing the same as this man”, he adds, marking his differences with Sheinbaum and López Obrador.

“I do not want to continue betting on fossil fuels, I do not want to continue betting on the militarization of the country, I do not want to continue betting on a collapsed health system”, points out the also businesswoman, who defines herself as a progressive liberal.

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old physicist, leads the preferences to be nominated as a candidate for the ruling party this Wednesday, according to polls published by the media. Without a third party Mexico is on the way to having a woman in the presidency for the first time.

“There are differences between engineers and scientists. We are more practical, more concrete”, says the also businesswoman regarding her possible adversary.

“the subway fell”, he points out, alluding to the train accident that caused 26 deaths in May 2021 when Sheinbaum was head of government of Mexico City. “We are going to discuss that with Claudia”.

“weird character”

“She (Sheinbaum) can alone, to tell her ‘hey, you are doing me a disservice as campaign manager, you dedicate yourself to governing and let me be the candidate’”, affirms the candidate, who says she is independent of the three parties that support her.

“Because then I would have to be facing the President of the Republic and her and it is an unequal contest“, Add.

Gálvez launched the campaign in June, after the president refused to allow him into his daily press conference to reply to criticisms made during that conference.

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The president accused her of wanting to disappear social programs, emblem of his administration.

Since then, the president has strongly criticized the senator, which has even earned him reprimands from the electoral authority.

“I stay with the social programs (of the current government)”, he says, criticizing instead López Obrador’s policy towards indigenous communities.

“With me, there will be no turning back to the rights won by both the LGBTQ community and of women”, he promises.

“I’m a weird character, because people don’t care if they’re from the left or the right, they care that you solve their problems“, it states.

Of the PAN, he says that he likes business liberalism, “of the PRD (also part of the alliance) this dream of social justice”, and the institutions that the PRI left to Mexico.

Before Gálvez jumped into the electoral arena, the opposition appeared blurred towards the general elections next June.

No to “hugs” for criminals

The Mexican presidential election It will occur while the country is experiencing a wave of violence that has left more than 100,000 missing and some 420,000 dead since 2006, when the government at that time launched a controversial anti-drug military operation.

Insecurity is one of the issues that Gálvez has promised to fight “with ovaries”, and it is part of the diagnosis that he makes of the most pressing problems in the country, although he has not yet disclosed his strategy.

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Promise there will be nohugs to criminals”, contrary to the famous phrase of the outgoing president (“hugs, not bullets): “the law is the law and you have to apply it”.

In the elections on June 2, the two chambers of Congress and nine governorships will also be renewed.

However, Gálvez still has an uphill road. According to a survey published by the newspaper El Financiero, Sheinbaum leads the preferences with 46% of the intention to vote, while she appears with 37%.

Source: Elcomercio

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