Mexico is living the prelude to its presidential election.
In the most important electoral process in history, the presidency of the Republic, the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the governorships of Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán and Mexico City are renewed.
Last weekend the first debate between the candidates for head of Government was held in the country's capital.
The meeting was led by Clara Brugada, the candidate of the Let's Keep Making History coalition in Mexico City, made up of Morena, the Labor Party and the Green Ecologist, Santiago Taboada, candidate of the PRI, PAN and PRD in the Va por la alliance CDMX, and by Salomón Chertorivski, the candidate of the Citizen Movement (MC).
For the presidential election, the new person in charge of the Executive will come from the Morenoist Claudia Sheinbaum;
Xóchitl Gálvez, standard bearer of the opposition front;
and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the Citizen Movement party.
Almost a month after the start of the campaigns, the polls maintain Sheinbaum as the leader, with an advantage that doubles the voting intention of Xóchitl Gálvez, her closest pursuer.
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Morena's candidate for mayor of Acatzingo, Puebla, murdered
Four armed men fired from two motorcycles against Jaime González, Morena's candidate for mayor of Acatzingo, in Puebla.
According to witnesses, González was shot while he was with his seven- and nine-year-old children.
One of the minors was injured.
The governor, Sergio Salomón Céspedes, of Morena, condemned the attack from his account in X.
"I join the call for justice for this cunning homicide and urge the @FiscaliaPuebla to clarify the motive and bring those responsible to justice," he wrote.
González was seeking the mayorship of Acatzingo for the second time.
In 2021 he ran under the acronym of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
ACT.23 MAR 2024 - 20:12
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Xóchitl Gálvez, on the kidnapping of 25 people in Sinaloa: “It is worrying that the governor says 'these are things that happen'”
Xóchitl Gálvez, presidential candidate for the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, criticized that the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moy, had, as she said, “minimized” the impact of the kidnapping of at least 25 people in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
"It worries me because children and women are still missing and the most worrying thing is the normality with which the governor says 'these are things that happen.'
I don't think they are things that happen, they try to normalize violence, that we see it normal for seven families to rise up with their wives and children.
It's good that the Army reacted immediately, but it is clear that the issue of insecurity is worrying," Gálvez said this Saturday during a campaign tour in Oaxaca.
During the early hours of this Saturday, authorities reported that nine adults and nine minors had been released.
Nothing is known yet about the seven remaining victims.
The national government responded to the kidnapping by sending federal forces.
ACT.23 MAR 2024 - 18:28
The country
Sheinbaum maintains that in the opposition “they cannot say who they really are”
The presidential candidate of the Let's keep making history coalition charged against her rival Xóchitl Gálvez during a stop on her campaign tour in Coahuila.
Asked about the support that the opposition Front received from the Spanish far-right of Vox and the conservative representative of the Popular Party (PP) Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Sheinbaum said that she was not surprised.
In the Front, she said “they have conservative thinking, but they cannot open it publicly in Mexico” because “fewer people would still vote for them.”
“Then they have to put on a costume that allows them to present themselves in a different way.
Now Vox comes to say or a representative from Spain, who came from the extreme right, to say that she supported the Front;
"They already said no, that they are not going to accept that support, but the problem is that they cannot say who they really are."
Sheinbaum also referred to former President Vicente Fox. “He is the one who really says what he thinks.
A few months ago he said that everyone who receives social programs is lazy.
Now all the PAN candidates say no, that they always agreed with the social programs.”
ACT.23 MAR 2024 - 15:35
Zedryk Raziel
Sheinbaum offers to include the opinion of businessmen in the policy of increasing the minimum wage
Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate of the Let's Keep Making History coalition (Morena, PVEM and PT), has offered to take into account the opinion of business owners in her proposal to increase the minimum wage for workers.
The official standard-bearer has indicated that, if she wins the elections on June 2, her goal will be for the minimum wage to be enough to buy 2.5 basic baskets a day, which represents a nominal increase in the following years of about 11% annually. .
"It will not be a policy of definition from the Government, but, as has been done until now, in a permanent negotiation with the businessmen of our country, even when there is talk of polarization," Sheinbaum said in a meeting with the Chamber National Commerce (Canaco) in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
The presidential candidate presented to the businessmen of the northern State the achievements of her management as head of Government of Mexico City in economic matters.
She also highlighted the stability achieved at the national level by the policies of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Sheinbaum affirmed that the president has made "the most important decisions in economic matters" by consensus, and assured that she will continue that practice.
"There has not been a decision to increase the minimum wage unilaterally, it has been a collective, consensus decision," he indicated.
"When the way of contracting changed to
outsourcing
, it was not a unilateral decision by the Government, but rather it was a series of talks. When the criteria for natural gas were defined, it was also a series of talks with the Government of Mexico. The issue of changes in labor matters was also a collective decision, and that is how it will continue to be, there will be no individual decisions," he assured.
ACT.22 MAR 2024 - 15:42
Darinka Rodriguez
The INE delivers 24,000 questions from citizens to Signa Lab for the first presidential debate
The engines are heating up for the first debate between Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
The National Electoral Institute (INE) received 24,000 questions from citizens, which were delivered to Signa Lab, belonging to the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of the West (ITESO).
This body must select 108 questions for the first debate, which will take place on April 7.
This selection of questions must be delivered to the debate moderators during the first twelve hours of the Wednesday prior to the presidential debate.
The questions were collected between February 20 and March 21, according to what the INE advisor, Carla Humphrey, has said.
“We are certain that Signa Lab will guarantee the selection of questions with the criteria established with the approved methodology and we trust that the report they will present after delivery will provide certainty and transparency to Mexican people about the completion of this exercise,” he said. Humphrey said.
The first presidential debate will be called
The Society We Want
and the theme will revolve around education and health, transparency and the fight against corruption, non-discrimination, vulnerable groups and sexist violence.
ACT.22 MAR 2024 - 13:29
Elias Camhaji
Gálvez presents a 10-point plan against the water crisis and criticizes Sheinbaum's results in Security
The opposition Xóchitl Gálvez took advantage of World Water Day to present a 10-point plan to combat the water crisis in her press conference this Friday.
The candidate of the Force and Heart for Mexico coalition - made up of the PAN, the PRI and the PRD - pledged that investment in infrastructure will be a "top priority" and guaranteeing access to water will be "a matter of national security."
The candidate proposes improving the collection of rainwater to replenish the aquifers, the reuse of treated and residual water, and technology to detect "huachicoleo" through clandestine intakes and wells.
The program includes desalination plants in some cities in the country and promoting a public-private investment plan, as well as new guidelines for territorial planning and modernization of the countryside, the sector that consumes the most this resource.
Gálvez also spoke about the fight against insecurity, the backbone of his campaign, and criticized his rival, the ruling party Claudia Sheinbaum.
"Organized crime remains unstoppable," accused the opponent.
"That is the second floor that Claudia Sheinbaum wants," she said.
Gálvez said the reduction in crime in the capital was due to the pandemic and a global trend of less activity due to confinement.
"These are mediocre results," she said.
The flag bearer cited official data to refer to the fact that eight out of every ten inhabitants of Mexico City are afraid of crime.
"That is the reality, no matter how much I want to disguise the figures," she concluded.
ACT.22 MAR 2024 - 12:56
Elias Camhaji
Xóchitl Gálvez: "Me with Vox not even in the corner"
Xóchitl Gálvez, opposition candidate for the presidency, marked her distance from the Spanish far-right party Vox.
"I'm not even on the corner with Vox," declared the standard-bearer of the PAN, PRI and PRD coalition in a press conference this Friday.
The statements come hours after a report came to light from the Madrid Forum and the Disenso Foundation, both linked to Vox, in which it is stated that the votes in Mexico are practically decided in favor of the ruling party Claudia Sheinbaum.
The organizations offered their "support" and "strategies" to Gálvez to shorten distances.
The applicant rejected the offer.
"I paint my line clearly. I am not a right-wing woman," she added.
ACT.22 MAR 2024 - 12:57
Darinka Rodriguez
Taxing large companies: in the electoral crosshairs
The recent dispute between President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mexican magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego has moved to the electoral field.
Morena's standard-bearer, Claudia Sheinbaum, plans to follow the current president's strategy of improving collection for companies whose annual income is greater than 1.5 billion pesos.
In the midst of the presidential campaign, the Government of Mexico has put large taxpayers in its sights.
Walmart, BBVA México, Grupo Modelo, IBM, Femsa, América Móvil, are just some of the other names that have been audited by the Tax Administration Service.
In this text, journalists Karina Suárez and Zedryk Raziel analyze the strategy that is implemented from the National Palace and that is extrapolated to the electoral debate towards the June 2 elections.
ACT.22 MAR 2024 - 10:50
Erika Rosette
The house of Crispín Agustín Mendoza, candidate for mayor of Alcozauca, in the mountains of Guerrero, was attacked with bullets
Early this Thursday morning, two men armed with high-powered rifles parked outside the home of Crispín Agustín Mendoza, who is a candidate for mayor of the municipality of Alzozauca, in the high mountains of Guerrero, and began shooting, without him neither the candidate nor his family was injured.
The attack, which could have been recorded by the home's cameras, occurred around 1:00 in the morning.
In the images you can see how two men arrive in a car, park right in front of Mendoza's home, place an unknown package in his truck and start shooting.
Hours later, the car allegedly belonging to the attackers was found burned on the Tlapa-Chilapa highway.
The candidate for the Guerrero Welfare Party (PBG) assured after the attack that he will continue in the electoral race.
ACT.21 MAR 2024 - 17:56
Georgina Zerega
At least 83 candidates requested protection and security from the INE
The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, reported this Thursday that at least 83 candidates for the next elections have requested protection from the Government and the electoral referee.
As of Wednesday, there were 74 that had it, and the last nine entered in the last few hours.
From the moment it is requested, until the moment it is applied, about 48 hours are estimated, she said.
When asked about this, the official clarified that no applicant who has requested security has been denied.
"In their requests they establish the causes, and the causes are that they feel threatened in the streets and they want security to be able to take the tours."
ACT.21 MAR 2024 - 16:32
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