The leading candidates for the presidency of Mexico held their last face-to-face meeting this Sunday before the June 2 elections, addressing critical issues such as security, migration and foreign relations, despite which attacks and disqualifications prevailed.
In the third and final debate, before the elections, the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a comfortable leader according to most polls, presented Mexicans with a dilemma between a past of “privileges” and “corruption” and “the present and the future.” “which represents the continuity of the project headed by the outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“They are privileges, we are well-being and rights (…) they are classism and racism, we are humanism, they defend a few, we defend the people of Mexico,” said Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City. Mexico, 61 years old, during one of his final interventions.
In contrast, the center-right challenger Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, who links López Obrador to the Sinaloa cartel.
“That is not a nickname or an insult, but rather a description of facts,” said Gálvez, after referring to Sheinbaum as a “narco-candidate.”
“Here it clearly says how Mrs. Sheinbaum and her secretary received bribes, received drugs, the book says that, she would have to clarify it,” Gálvez added while showing a cardboard with the cover and fragments of Hernández’s publication.
Attacks
The opposition candidate’s attacks also included an accusation against Mario Delgado, president of Morena – the party of Sheinbaum and López Obrador – of being under investigation by a US security agency for fuel trafficking.
Although the official candidate avoided responding to her opponent’s numerous attacks, she called for them to stop.
“We Mexicans do not deserve a presidential debate full of slander and lies (…) I am not going to fall, in this case, into provocations,” said Sheinbaum, who, however, counterattacked the candidate of the alliance of traditional parties PRI, PAN and PRD.
“I understand the desperation of PRIAN [contracción peyorativa de los partidos PRI y PAN]is in a distant second place, but I do not share their methods,” added the official.
Evasive
Local analysts criticized the analytical insufficiency of the leading candidates to address the proposed topics and the lack of sophistication of their approaches and explanations.
“Claudia [Sheinbaum] continues in the defense posture that suddenly becomes evasive (…) Having such important issues, they are not part of the debate,” said journalist René Delgado, during an analysis panel on the Televisa network.
“What worries Mexicans the most is insecurity. Xóchitl Gálvez had a very important opportunity there (…) but today I felt uncomfortable,” said political scientist Leo Zuckerman, for his part, in the same forum.
“None of the three gave real solutions to the problem of insecurity,” he added.
Mexico is preparing to organize the largest elections in its history on June 2, in which the president, congressmen, nine of 32 governors and thousands of local officials will be elected.
In total, just over 20,000 charges are in dispute, in a campaign that has been marked by organized crime violence.
Voting intention favors Sheinbaum with 56%, followed by Gálvez with 34% and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the minority Citizen Movement, with 10%, according to a consolidated survey by the Oraculus firm.
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