Who would you vote for for the municipal presidency of El Fuerte, Sinaloa?

If the elections were today, Who would you vote for for the municipal presidency of El Fuerte, Sinaloa?

This coming Sunday, June 2, the elections will be held and this process is recognized as the largest that Mexico has ever had, since it will involve the Presidency of the Republic, senatorial offices, local and federal councils, and municipal presidencies.

In the highland municipality of El Fuerte, Sinaloanine candidates They seek to be elected by the citizens for the municipal presidency. They are:

– Jairo Samuel Leyva Soto, independent candidate
– Gildardo Leyva Ortega, candidate for Morena (seeking re-election)
– Víctor Manuel Sarmiento Armenta, independent
– Édgar Estrella, for the Labor Party
– Martín Armenta Gil, independent
– José Vicente Pico Orduño, for the PVEM
– Abel Sarmiento Carabeo, for Movimiento Ciudadano
– Favián Cota, for the PRI, PAN, PRD and PAS (Force and Heart Coalition for Sinaloa)
– Dolores Enrique Gil, for the PES

Profiles

Jairo Leyva He has a degree in Tourism Administration, he has been an English teacher in primary schools and an administrator at the UAIM. He has been a councilor of the El Fuerte City Council in the period 2021-2024. He assures that he wants to be municipal president “to fully and responsibly cover the basic service needs that all working citizens occupies in order to peacefully provide sustenance for our families.”
Between his proposals are:
– Efficient and transparent administration
– Provide basic services, water, garbage collection, roads and highways in good condition, public lighting.

Gildardo Leyva He believes that more than 2 years in the mayor’s office have given him the experience to continue doing good work for the municipality. The Morenista has a degree in Education so teaching in primary, secondary and high school appears in his work experience.
In October 2018, he assumed the position of Deputy of the LXIII Legislature for Local Electoral District I, corresponding to the municipalities of Choix and El Fuerte. In October 2021 he assumed the position of municipal president of El Fuerte.
Some of his proposals are:
– Reverse negative social indicators that the municipality of El Fuerte has in terms of health, education, food, etc., and promote a social welfare policy.
– Promote economic development by promoting tourism and activities linked to the primary sector, such as fishing, agriculture and livestock, in order to achieve maximum employment.

Victor Sarmiento He has participated for decades in promoting sports, especially youth. During his administration as municipal president he accomplished more than 100 works in the first 100 days. At the invitation of the PAN he accepted to be a candidate for federal deputyship. In this period he seeks the election through independent means.
Some of his proposals are:
– Improve the quality of life of citizens with the improvement of services such as drinking water, drainage, wastewater treatment, garbage collection and disposal.
– Promote the economic development of the municipality, promoting tourism with the creation of new attraction spaces and improving the infrastructure of streets and roads, in addition to attracting companies to improve the standard of living of citizens.

Edgar Estrella He has a business profile and based on this he considers that he has an ideal profile to be municipal president, “I am a planner by profession and I have an electromechanical engineering background. As an engineer I am calculating and quantitative, and as a planner I am qualitative and a designer”, expressed in an interview with EL DEBATE. He mentions that on the public issue, he is passionate about being able to contribute his qualities, abilities, knowledge and experiences to contribute a spoonful of sand to improve the social environment.
Between his proposals are:
– Raise resource management at the state and federal level to benefit the municipality with different projects such as municipal garbage dumps and maintenance of drinking water pumping systems.
– Address the issue of education
– Be an ally of the business sector.

Martin Armenta He has extensive experience as a lawyer. In the period 1993-1995 he served as legal advisor to the El Fuerte City Council in 2008-2009 as director of Municipal Public Security. In 2010 he was advisor to the presidency of El Fuerte and from 2011-2016 delegate of Roads and Transportation of the State Government. In addition to being president of the El Fuerte Bar Association.
Some of his proposals are:
– An inclusive government for the entire society, made by the people and for the people.
– A monthly inspection, carried out by a citizen committee made up of the people (honorary citizens) to verify expenses and payroll.

Vicente Pico, a renowned transporter in the region and livestock farmer. It seeks to rescue the culture of our Yoremes brothers, respect the human rights of citizens, promote and encourage care for the environment to achieve a municipality of well-being.
Some of his proposals are:
– Guarantee a healthy life and promote the well-being of the people, managing an ambulance and a pharmacy for each municipality of the municipality, where the medicine is sold at the supplier’s costs.
– Create a municipal system of school transportation scholarships for the benefits of low-income students who carry out professional studies outside of El Fuerte, after a socioeconomic study.

Abel Sarmiento He has an academic training focused on journalism courses, creative writing, research, among others. He has been a member of the Association of Journalists of Los Mochis, a member of the Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte collective, and a candidate for local deputy for V District in 2016. He has already been in public service for 15 years where he has held different positions. He seeks to be municipal president “to influence the public life of my community and make possible its improvement and comprehensive development.”
Between his proposals are:
– Have a white flag in decent housing in the municipality of El Fuerte.
– Create a comprehensive program to improve drinking water in the municipality.

Favian Cota He has been part of the PRI ranks since he was very young. He was already an official, which has given him experience to be municipal president. He considers that corruption is one of the main problems of the municipality, in addition, the problem of drinking water and the issue of security.
Some of his proposals are:
– Eliminate corruption.
– Address the problem of drinking water.
– Seek prevention in the area of ​​security.
– Bet on a landfill.

Dolores Enrique Gil He expresses that seeing the needs and feeling the pain firsthand is what drove him to seek the mayorship of El Fuerte, “we deserve a little more as citizens, we have the right to fight for a better place,” he mentioned in an interview with EL DEBATE. The candidate has a history of social management, without holding government positions, always seeking the benefit of all the people of the municipality. He belongs to the LGBT community and has always fought to create a place for his colleagues.
Som
e of his proposals are:
– Address the problem of drought.
– Rehabilitation of destroyed roads.
– Work on the issue of landfills.
– Try to create a special office for minorities.