Election of pro-government presidential candidate is tense in Mexico

The election of the official candidate for the presidency of Mexico It became tense, after this Wednesday one of the main applicants questioned the validity of the process and demanded its repetition hours before the winner was proclaimed.

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The former chancellor Marcelo Ebrard denounced “irregularities” in a survey from which the candidate from the left will come out, who in his opinion favors his main rival, the former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum.

“If the procedureif this survey is not done well, then we are not meeting the objectives that we have set ourselves, so it favors me”Ebrard said in a speech amid cheers from his team and supporters.

ebrard denounced that there isinconsistencies” in 14% of the forms, as well as the deployment of electoral propaganda in areas where the pollsters were preparing to collect information. I had previously linked to sheinbaum with the use of public resources in the campaign.

Despite this, the scrutiny process was advancing, according to the party president Brunette, Mario Delgado, who plans to announce the winner on Wednesday afternoon. The survey asked 12,000 people.

Of win sheinbaumtwo women would compete for the first time for the presidency of MexicoWell, last Sunday the senator Xochitl Galvez She was anointed as a candidate for a coalition of opposition parties and at the moment there is no third candidate in sight.

Physicist of 61 years, sheinbaum outstrips ebrard in the intention to vote, according to two polls recently published in the Mexican media.

Second Latin American economy and main partner of USA, Mexico It is plunged into a spiral of violence due to the actions of drug cartels, to which is added an extensive list of femicides.

The frictions between ebrard and sheinbaum They represent a unity test for Morena, favorite for the 2024 elections, majority in Parliament and ruler in 23 of the 32 Mexican states.

Very popular, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bragged Tuesday that he had not “tipped the scales” in favor of any candidate. “The finger is over,” he said, referring to the appointment of the candidate by the outgoing president. “It will be the people who were consulted in the survey” who decide.

If he were not successful, Ebrard could leave Morena, according to some versions. Joking, the candidate Gálvez has even offered to join her campaign.

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“Daughter of 68″ against “progressive liberal”

If confirmed, the duel between Sheinbaum and Gálvez promises to be a clash of origins, personalities and styles.

The granddaughter of Jewish grandparents from Bulgaria and Lithuania, Sheinbaum exhibits a reserved and prudent demeanor, without charisma, according to her opponents.

“I’m the daughter of 68″, says the former mayor, who claims the heritage of social struggles and never having belonged to the PRI, the old hegemonic party for 70 years in the 20th century.

Coming from the capital’s intellectual bourgeoisie, Sheinbaum promises to continue the policies of López Obrador, limited to a single six-year term, according to the Constitution.

He affirms that he will defend the poorest, including indigenous communities, and celebrates the good macroeconomic results of the current government (strong currency, healthy finances).

Often dressed in garments of indigenous tradition, the opposition member Gálvez, 60, is originally from a town in the central state of Hidalgo.

Xóchitl (flower in the Nahuatl language) was born into a poor family, to an indigenous Otomi father and a mestizo mother.

A successful engineer and entrepreneur, Gálvez does not hesitate to pepper her speeches with profanity.

“My golden rule: I don’t want thieves, or idiots (lazy), or assholes “, he repeated on Monday in an interview with AFP, the day after his appointment. He also affirms that he will combat violence with “ovaries”.

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Duel

Gálvez also challenged Sheinbaum to campaign for herself, no help from the presidentto whom they attribute favoritism to the former mayor.

“She (sheinbaum) can alone, to tell her: (…) ‘you dedicate yourself to governing and let me be the candidate’”, he told AFP.

Galvez declares itself liberal and progressive, synthesizing the ideology of the three parties that support it: the economic liberalism of the right-wing BREADthe leftist ideal of social justice PRD and the institutional heritage of PRI.

“With me, there will be no turning back to the rights won, both from the community LGBTQ+ and of womenhe promised.

He abortion was decriminalized completely this Wednesday by the Supreme Court of Justice, while same-sex marriage is legal in all 32 states.

Combative, Xóchitl believes that she can regain ground after having awakened and unified the opposition in just two months of campaigning.

Source: Elcomercio

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