Claudia Sheinbaum: “The neoliberal model was left behind and Mexican humanism emerged” | The start of the electoral campaign in Mexico 2024, live

This Friday, Mexico began the electoral campaign ahead of the elections on June 2.

It will be the first time that a woman reaches the Presidency, with Claudia Sheinbaum, the official candidate, and Xóchitl Gálvez, the opposition, as the leading candidates.

Meanwhile, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, the Citizen Movement (MC) candidate, timidly appears from the bottom of the polls.

The presidential candidates have begun their respective campaigns.

Gálvez started in Fresnillo (Zacatecas), the city with the highest perception of danger in the country, while Álvarez Máynez started in Lagos de Moreno, a municipality with high rates of insecurity and violence adjacent to Zacatecas and Aguascalientes.

Sheinbaum, for his part, began his campaign in the capital's Zócalo, at the foot of the National Palace.

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Georgina Zerega

Sheinbaum: "The neoliberal model was left behind and Mexican humanism emerged"

Claudia Sheinbaum launches her campaign this Friday with a mass bath in the Zócalo.

The candidate of Let's Keep Making History has started her speech with a lapse.

"There are only two paths to take this June 2: one, let corruption continue... let the transformation continue. Or let corruption return," she said.

She then continued with her speech: "The neoliberal model was left behind, and the corruption that accompanied it for 30 years, and Mexican humanism emerged." 

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 17:37

Georgina Zerega

Clara Brugada: "We are proud defenders of López Obrador's project"

The first to speak this Friday afternoon in the Zócalo was Clara Brugada, the Sigamos Making History candidate for the Government of Mexico City.

"This Zócalo is the place of many struggles in defense of the people, not to fight for privileges, spread hatred, division and lies," she began by saying in her message.

Brugada, who also launches his campaign this March 1, has said that the race is "the chronicle of an announced victory" and has mentioned the key name, that of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is not present at the event, because he The law prevents it, but it is located a few meters from where the event takes place.

"We are proud heirs of the struggles of our people," she launched, "we are proud defenders of the project of our president Andrés Manuel López Obrador."

"We are united by the indestructible will to bring our colleague Claudia Sheinbaum to the Presidency and build the second floor of the Fourth Transformation," she added.

The candidate for the capital has assured that she will win the city, one of the points that generates the most concern inside Morena.

"We are going to defeat the real estate cartel, corruption."

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 17:30

Elias Camhaji

PANism covers Xóchitl Gálvez in Guanajuato

Everything ready for the first massive event of Xóchitl Gálvez's campaign.

Around 25,000 people have packed the Sergio León Chávez stadium in Irapuato, where the opposition candidate plays at home.

The former senator spent this Friday touring Aguascalientes and Guanajuato, two strongholds governed by the National Action Party (PAN).

The flags of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) fly for the first time alongside those of its historical rivals in a presidential election.

A band music group entertains before the arrival of the candidate, who will give a message against insecurity, her bet for the final stretch of the contest.

The stage, a long catwalk with two screens on the sides, awaits the arrival of the flag bearer.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 17:18

Jorge Vaquero Simancas

Xóchitl Gálvez denounces insecurity in a confrontational electoral advertisement

The candidate of the Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México front (PAN-PRI-PRD), Xóchitl Gálvez, has opted for an energetic and confrontational first campaign spot.

The main opposition, second in the polls, has started with her campaign slogan: “No fear Mexico!”

With drum music in the background, the candidate appears surrounded by female protesters who show signs of support.

“United we will recover peace and prosperity,” she declared.

The main theme of his electoral announcement is insecurity.

“United we will recover peace and prosperity.”

, he said while he was getting on a bus.

These references have continued to be interspersed with images of different women of all ages.

“No fear in the streets.

Without fear of getting sick and not having medicine.

For a Mexico without fear,” the candidate denounced.

Gálvez held her first campaign event at midnight this Friday in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, the city where its residents have the highest perception of insecurity in the entire country.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 17:03

Jorge Vaquero Simancas

Claudia Sheinbaum opts for a sober and continuous campaign ad

The candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Claudia Sheinbaum, has chosen to play a sober and institutional role in her first

campaign

spot .

In front of the camera and with emotional images of landscapes and people in the background, she has appealed on numerous occasions to the achievements obtained by Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his six-year term.

“With the transformation we regain the pride of being Mexicans,” she told the camera.

The

candidate's voice-

over has been addressed first to the most vulnerable sectors: the elderly, young people and children.

Always with very soft music in the background, in the second part of the advertisement he has highlighted the infrastructures laid during Morena's six-year term.

“Roads, trains, airports are built, the countryside is promoted and the economy flourishes,” she noted.

A formula

continuity in which Sheinbaum has ended with the same slogan that gives its name to the coalition of Morena, the Green Party and the Labor Party: “Let's continue making history”

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 16:51

Zedryk Raziel

The Zócalo, packed with supporters of López Obrador and Sheinbaum

The capital's main square is packed with supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum.

The social organizations that once supported the president - workers, housing defense, merchants - now surrender to Morena's candidate.

From eight in the morning, supporters from all states arrived at the main square of the capital, transported by local leaders in buses, as is usual at Mexican political events.

Sellers of López Obrador and Sheinbaum stuffed animals are making a killing.

Regional Mexican music plays in the Zócalo while Sheinbaum's special guests arrive: from former Minister Arturo Zaldívar to Tatiana Clouthier, his campaign spokesperson.

Not everything is a party.

A sit-in by the relatives of the 43 missing normal students from Ayotzinapa is the demonstration of an open wound.

The relatives ask for a direct dialogue with López Obrador, without intermediaries.

In the National Palace they hung a banner with his protest slogan.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 16:11

Georgina Zerega

Candidates prepare for their big campaign opening events

The big campaign opening events scheduled for this Friday afternoon are approaching.

Claudia Sheinbaum has summoned her followers to the Zócalo, at the doors of the National Palace, where thousands of people are already waiting for her.

It is expected that her first major appearance as a candidate will be after 4:00 p.m.

Meanwhile, Xóchitl Gálvez began her journey early Friday morning.

The Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México candidate opened the campaign with an event in Fresnillo, where people are most afraid, to capitalize on the issue of insecurity.

She then passed through Aguascalientes and her big event will be at 5:00 p.m. in Irapuato, in Guanajuato, a state governed by the PAN.

Jorge Álvarez Máynez will be at 7:00 p.m. in Lagos de Moreno, where the authorities found five bodies abandoned in a ravine this Friday. 

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 16:33

Zedryk Raziel

Relatives of the 43 from Ayotzinapa protest this Friday in the Zócalo before Claudia Sheinbaum's event.

/ Zedryk Raziel

The relatives of the 43 from Ayotzinapa stand in front of the Sheinbaum event

A sit-in by the relatives of the Ayotzinapa normalistas directly confronts the festive mood at the event of the candidate of the National Regeneration Movement, Claudia Sheinbaum.

The relatives of the 43 demand a dialogue with the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, personally and without intermediaries.

A spokesperson stated this Friday that before this Friday they sought to negotiate with the authorities the withdrawal of the protest in exchange for a date for dialogue, but no one attended to them.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 15:01

Carmen Morán Breña

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López Obrador shows signs of concern about the political projection of the right in the capital

Carmen Morán Breña

The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, believes that there is a “right-wing” that does not occur in other parts of the country: “Before it was not like this, this was an advanced city, it always was, and now it has been breading, hamburgering , righting.”

In a joking tone, the president was referring to the conservative National Action Party.

López Obrador's words are always examined with a magnifying glass.

The president does not give a single stitch without a thread and some have wanted to see in this statement a scramble for his people to wake up in the middle of the electoral campaign;

to mobilize the leftist bases, to warn them of the danger that the June 2 polls could repeat or improve the result that the right obtained in the 2021 midterm elections.

Read the full story here.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 14:35

Elias Camhaji

Aguascalientes: Xóchitl Gálvez's first stop in PAN territory

The start of Xóchitl Gálvez's campaign continues in Aguascalientes, the second State he visits and the first stop in a territory governed by the National Action Party (PAN).

The opposition candidate called a press conference in which the fight against insecurity once again became the backbone of her speech.

"We are going for a Mexico without fear: without fear of undertaking, without fear of going out into the streets, without fear of success," she has said before followers and opposition candidates for Congress.

The candidate of the Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México coalition is planning a massive rally at five in the afternoon at the Sergio León Chávez stadium in Irapuato.

25,000 people are expected.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 12:37

Zedryk Raziel

The son of Julio Scherer, former legal advisor to López Obrador, goes to the Chamber of Deputies for the PVEM

Julio Scherer, the powerful former legal advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, returns to public life in Mexico.

He will do so through his first-born son, Julio Javier Scherer Pareyón, who has been nominated to the Chamber of Deputies by the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), an ally of Morena, the ruling party.

The PVEM has given him a preferential multi-member candidacy, the first place in the third electoral district, a position that guarantees him an automatic pass to the federal Congress.

Scherer was the presidential legal advisor for the first three years of López Obrador's six-year term.

He left office amid complaints of alleged influence peddling and corruption.

The Attorney General's Office initiated an investigation file against him for allegedly having used his position to help the construction company OHL-Aleástica to retain the controversial concession of the Bicentenario Viaduct.

The Prosecutor's Office also investigated a close group of Scherer's lawyers for allegations of extortion.

According to the accusations, the lawyers used Scherer's name and influence to negotiate benefits in favor of people accused of major corruption cases.

The former legal advisor always denied the accusations against him and, after his retirement from public administration, he dedicated himself to his real estate businesses. 

Scherer Pareyón, 38, formed the firm Julio & Renata Nueva York, SA de CV, together with his father, in December 2018, a few days after the start of the López Obrador Administration.

Elena Castillo García, Scherer's private secretary for two decades, was appointed commissioner of the company.

The political parties have finished refining their lists of candidates for the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

The lists have already been approved by the INE, although the formations will still be able to make substitutions during the next three months of the campaign.

In the lists delivered by Morena for the Senate, the name of Alfonso Cepeda, leader of the national teachers union (SNTE), stands out.

The Labor Party, another Morena ally, has nominated Jaime Bonilla, former governor of Baja California.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 10:41

Elias Camhaji

Xóchitl Gálvez presents a five-point plan against insecurity at the start of his campaign

The fight against insecurity was the main protagonist in the start of Xóchitl Gálvez's campaign.

The opposition candidate presented a package of five proposals against crime, which include doubling the number of National Guard agents to reach 300,000 elements and withdrawing the Army from the civil tasks entrusted during the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

"Hugs to criminals are over and the law will be the law," she stated to distance herself from the security policy of the current Administration, known colloquially as "hugs, not bullets."

Other points proposed were to strengthen state governments with resources and technology, strengthen municipal police forces with federal funds and improve the working conditions of all police corporations in the country.

Gálvez also proposed that Mexico and the United States jointly manage customs control as a measure against drug trafficking.

"We are going to return peace and tranquility to the country," she concluded, before thousands of followers in Fresnillo, the city with the highest perception of insecurity in Mexico.

ACT.1 MAR 2024 - 02:43

Elias Camhaji

Xóchitl Gálvez, in Fresnillo: “I am where people are most afraid, I come to give a message of hope”

Xóchitl Gálvez, the candidate of the opposition coalition for the next presidential elections, will start the campaign this Friday in Fresnillo, the city with the highest perception of danger in the country: “I am where people are most afraid, I come to give a message of hope”

ACT.29 FEB 2024 - 22:33

Elias Camhaji

The head of Xóchitl Gálvez's office: “We are not going against Claudia Sheinbaum, we are going against the State apparatus”

Kenia López Rabadán, the head of office of the state apparatus

ACT.29 FEB 2024 - 22:38

Elias Camhaji

Xóchitl Gálvez begins the countdown to start the campaign in Fresnillo

Xóchitl Gálvez is already in Fresnillo (Zacatecas), the city with the highest perception of insecurity in Mexico, to start his campaign for the presidency.

“The time has come,” said the opposition candidate on her social networks.

The event is scheduled to begin after midnight, in the first minutes of this Friday, when the final stretch of the contest officially begins.

She will be the first of the three candidates to hold a public event, under the slogan “For a Mexico without fear” and in the midst of a strong security device. 

Gálvez's bet at the beginning of the race is clear: to demonstrate that the fight against insecurity is at the top of her list of priorities and to position herself in front of voters as the candidate who is not afraid and who is going to give the fights against Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite in the polls.

The standard bearer of the Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México coalition plans to begin her activities with a walk through the center of Fresnillo, where more than 96% of the population feels unsafe, and give a speech in the city's main square. 

ACT.29 FEB 2024 - 21:44

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