The candidate of the opposition front ‘Va x la CDMX’ for the head of Government of Mexico City, Santiago Taboada, complaint in an interview with EFE the apocalypse” that, in his opinion, the city suffers from the lack of water and the usual electrical blackouts.
“I’m going to tell you what is happening: we are seeing the apocalypse,” he asserts, since the Mexican capital, one of the largest cities in the world, frequently registers major environmental problems.
Among them, explains Taboada, the declaration “practically one or two days a week” of the environmental contingency due to pollution, the recent power outages and the “water problems” that, for months, have conditioned some municipalities (internal demarcations). of the city where ten million people live.
“Practically, we are living in a very deteriorated condition, in terms of quality of life,” he summarizes, linking it to the lack of public policies of previous local governments.
Since 1997, the year in which the JMexico City Government Office After decades of hand-picking by the federal presidency, power has been in the hands of the left.
First, from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), now a member of the Taboada opposition coalition, and, as of 2018, from the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), with presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum at the helm until 2023.
“Nothing has been done even for the water“, nor for alternative energies, nor for the subway and, of course, for health,” laments the 38-year-old opponent who headed the capital’s mayor’s office in Benito Juarez between 2018 and 2023, during the interview with EFE in the Insurgentes San Borja neighborhood.
Water and security, priorities
If he reaches the head of Government, Taboada places water management as “a priority”, which he will address from three fronts: “end the leaks” that the system suffers, build treatment plants to be able to recycle it and promote collection systems. .
“It is a city where it rains, fortunately, and that rain will also allow us to use it in services such as public schools, public buildings and, of course, for use in homes,” he explains.
Regarding the electricity supply, he reaffirms the proposal of his counterpart in the presidential race, Xóchitl Gálvez, to open the sector to private investment, and is committed to exploring green energies, such as wind or solar, in the field. local.
For the mayor on leave of Benito Juárez, demarcation of the city center, “shielding” the city to guarantee security involves two strategies: one focused on “crimes of the patrimonial order”, such as robberies, and another, towards The orginazed crime.
In the first area, he proposes increasing “the conditions of training and benefits” of the Police, as well as “returning” to a model where agents “know the crimes, the territory and the schedules.”
And, in the second, the creation of “a specific group to combat extortion” that criminals exercise against citizens, “one of the crimes that, during this six-year term, increased.”
Taboada, who is second in the latest polls although the distance with the leader, the ruling party Clara Brugada, is reducing, rejects any connection with an alleged real estate cartel, an accusation fueled by Morena.
“If 10% of what they hold me responsible for or point out were true, I would not be here with you, 18 days (from the election), giving you an interview,” a firm sentence.
On the other hand, the candidate for the coalition between the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the PRD believes that, in recent years, the capital government has made “zero progress” in the fight against violence. sexist.
“For example, the shelters for women victims of violence disappeared,” she says.
He also denounces that “there has been no strategy” to combat femicides and that “their backs have been turned” to the victims, also from the Attorney General’s Office of the capital, which he accuses of “having an enormous debt.” with the women”.
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