More because of a desire for power, for territorial control, the trustee elections have become a litmus test for any mayor in office, and today, with Gerardo Vargas, there is no difference: the political currents enter fully to dispute the trusteeships, and the candidates risk their honor and their political and economic future.
Morena and PAS are the only well-structured political parties that enter the competition and can support their respective candidates. The PAS has more structure but less influence in the peasant sector, but it must be taken into account that Ahome is concessioned to Vargas Landeros and that in the end it will be his political force that will prevail in next Sunday’s plebiscites.
Now, for the first time in a long time, the PAN does not have candidates or sufficient strength to enter the fight; Apparently the same is happening with the PRI, but the PRI members play not to lose, as happened in the last election, and they are refraining from participating or joining forces with the mayor.
There are only two red flags for the official candidates: in the Topolobampo syndicate, Herminio Balderrama, his godparents and his supporters have to work hard to beat Ulises Pinzón, better known as the promoter of the group “Aquí No”, who opposes to the construction of the fertilizer plant, and which they assure has the support of former PT candidate for mayor Domingo Vázquez.
In Higuera de Zaragoza, one of the most populated syndicates in the municipality, it is where the fiercest battle between the official Ramón Urías and Carlos Echevarría is expected to take place, while in the Central syndicate there is no glimpse of any risk for the victory of María Jesús Castro, one of the people closest to the mayor. In San Miguel Zapotitlan it is assured that the best times of Horacio “Lacho” Álvarez are over.
No mayor wants to have one or several trustees against him, but the syndicates do not have as much strategic value and there is a history that whoever wins wins, in the end the elected trustees end up subordinating themselves to the administration in office, therefore the struggles that are now waged they can turn into true petate flare-ups, without much significance. At the time
Potpourri. The issues of returning to face-to-face classes and health, due to the covid pandemic, may be the most relevant to be analyzed today at Governor Rubén Rocha’s Semanera conference, because the Secretary of Education, Graciela Domínguez, announced that today they return Thousands of students will return to the classrooms, although the return will be staggered and with the strictest health measures.
WATER. By tomorrow there should be drinking water with enough pressure and quality to drink it again from the faucet, after the cleaning of the pre-settler at the Río Fuerte water treatment plant has been completed. Now the cleaning of the other plant, Hernández Terán, and then those of the rural communities, continues. You have to be vigilant.
“This Monday our girls, boys and young people will return to classes”, Secretary of Education Graciela Domínguez
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