Zury Ríos Sosa is the presidential candidate for the conservative Valor Unionista coalition. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday that he is "looking at the possibility" that the Guatemalan government will pardon the 83-year-old former guerrilla Montes.

Montes was sentenced to 175 years in prison for the murder of three soldiers in an indigenous community in 2019. Rios said in another message on social media that the Mexican president's decision is "interventionist and incongruous"