Mexico: Xóchitl Gálvez, opposition candidate, denounces ‘unequal competition’ in the elections

“We all knew that we were facing unequal competition against the entire State apparatus dedicated to favoring their candidate,” he reflected in a text published on his social networks.

The representative of the Force and Heart alliance for Mexico, of the National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties, thus referred to her defeat in the vote, in which, According to the quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE), it reached between 26.6% and 28.6% of the votes.
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Meanwhile, Sheinbaum, candidate of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), emerged as the future first president of the country with between 58.3% and 60%. .7% of the votes.

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While The standard bearer of the also opposition Citizen Movement (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, would receive between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes.

The electoral body placed participation in the elections in a range of between 60% and 61.5%, while Sheinbaum estimates having obtained 35 million votes, almost five million more than those obtained by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018.
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Gálvez also blamed organized crime for being present in the elections by threatening and “even” murdering dozens of applicants and candidates..

His statements reflect that the electoral contest will go down in history as the largest in Mexican political life, with more than 98 million voters called to renew more than 20,000 positions and the expected result of the first president of Mexico, but also as the most violent, with at least 30 applicants murdered.

Although the former senator acknowledged her defeat, Arguing that she is “a democrat” and believes in institutions, she warned that the result does not “end here.”
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“Yes, we will present the challenges that prove what I tell you and that we all know. And we will do it because we cannot allow us to have another election like this,” he concluded.

He noted that “today more than ever” he must defend democracy and the republic because the balances and division of powers remain “at risk.”

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In addition, He called for unity for those who defend “life, truth and freedom.”

“They will seek to divide us and discourage us but we cannot afford to give up. Let’s continue our fight for you, for your family and for Mexico. We are the resistance and we must do what we have to do: defend Mexico from authoritarianism and bad government,” he stated.

On several occasions, the opposition bloc accused the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of meddling in the process and even filed a complaint with the INE to have his daily conferences suspended, which was unsuccessful.
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López Obrador, for his part, said this Monday that he is not going to impose anything on Sheinbaum. In fact, he confirmed that once he hands over power he will retire from politics. “It is truly a historical fact (…) And let it be clear, let it be heard well and heard far away, at the end of my term I am retiring and will not participate in any public, political activity again,” said the president during his usual morning press conference.