Further behind were former Governor Manuel Velasco, with between 6.3% and 8.6%, and Senator Ricardo Monreal, with between 5.4% and 6.5%, according to what the president of the Morena National Council and governor read. from the state of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, according to the live broadcast of Milenio TV.
The final stretch of the scrutiny -carried out today- entered into a surprising questioning by Ebrard.
“Yesterday and today we have found, unfortunately, in the ongoing survey process, at the polls, on the ballots, evidence in a higher proportion and that is why the whole process took so long; We affirm that this must be replaced, there is no remedy,” the former foreign minister said at a press conference.
Ebrard maintained that “of 2,360 questionnaires applied, there were 310 with incidents, which is equivalent to more than 10% of the sample and makes the figure worrying”, so “the result may be very questionable then”, according to the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
In the middle of the afternoon, Ebrard’s representatives left the premises where the count was taking place. “We left, we are going to have a meeting, the process is going to be challenged,” warned one of Ebrard’s campaign coordinators, Alberto Esteva, as he left the offices installed in the World Trade Center building, in Mexico City. .
At the same time, the candidate himself announced that he would not attend the proclamation ceremony and, together with his wife, they left the hotel where they were following the scrutiny.
At the same time, the former foreign minister denounced that another of his campaign coordinators, Martha Micher, was beaten by police officers from the capital, for which he labeled the two main leaders of Morena as “cowards”, but the incident was denied by several of his competitors. and by other leaders of the ruling party.
Also, most of his contenders for the candidacy denied or minimized the irregularities raised by Ebrard, who summoned his militants to a “national assembly” for next Monday, “to review the route to follow in relation to the process” electoral of 2024 , according to the newspaper Milenio.
The Madrid newspaper El País reported that in a “private meeting”, Ebrard warned: “We are not going to submit to that lady (for Sheinbaum), we are not going to tolerate a leadership that does this to us.”
For this reason, the newspaper speculated that “the former chancellor opened the door when he left the party”, a possibility that was ruled out shortly after by Micher.
“We are not going to leave Morena, we are part of this family, we are proudly ‘morenos’, we are happy in this movement, but there are differences within the family,” said the campaign coordinator in statements to the press.
The 2024 presidential elections will be decided for the first time between two women, since the opposition appointed Gálvez, officially invested last Sunday after having dominated the internal elections of the Broad Front formed by the traditional National Action Party (PAN, conservative, which the candidate belongs to), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, center) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, center-left).
The announcement of the results of the survey was expected as a test of unity for Morena, favorite for the 2024 elections, majority in parliament and ruler in 23 of the 32 Mexican states.
President Andrés López Obrador boasted yesterday that he had not “tipped the scales” in favor of any candidate, and today he ruled out that there will be a rupture in Morena, since the six pre-candidates are “very responsible people” who “fight for a transformation ” and “they are not vulgar ambitious”, according to the Europa Press news agency.
This is the first time in the history of Mexico that the candidacies are defined by the poll mechanism, through which the preference of the population over the candidates for the presidential elections is probed.
The duel between Sheinbaum and Gálvez not only implies that Mexico will be governed from December next year by a woman for the first time since its independence in 1821, but it will also be a clash of origins, personalities and styles.
The granddaughter of Jewish grandparents from Bulgaria and Lithuania, Sheinbaum exhibits a reserved and prudent demeanor, without charisma, according to her opponents.
“I am the daughter of 68,” says the former mayor, who claims the heritage of social struggles and never having belonged to the PRI, the old hegemonic party for 70 years in the 20th century.
Coming from the capital’s intellectual bourgeoisie, Sheinbaum promises to continue the policies of López Obrador, limited to a single six-year term, according to the Constitution.
On behalf of Morena, he affirms that he will defend the poorest and indigenous communities, and celebrates the good macroeconomic results of the current government, such as the strength of the Mexican peso.
Often dressed in traditional indigenous garments, Gálvez is originally from a town in the central state of Hidalgo.
Xóchitl (flower, in the Nahuatl language), who was born into a poor family of an Otomi indigenous father and a mestizo mother, is a successful engineer and entrepreneur, and she does not hesitate to sprinkle her speeches with outbursts.
“My golden rule: I don’t want thieves, or assholes, or assholes,” he repeated on Monday, the day after his appointment, adding that he will fight violence with “ovaries.”
Gálvez further challenged Sheinbaum to campaign on her own, without help from the president.
“She (Sheinbaum) can alone, to tell her: ‘you dedicate yourself to governing and let me be the candidate,'” he said.
Politically, Gálvez declares herself liberal and progressive, synthesizing the ideas of the three parties that support her: the economic liberalism of the PAN, the ideal of social justice of the PRD, and the institutional heritage of the PRI.
“With me, there will be no turning back to the rights won, both by the LGBTQ community and by women,” she promised.
Source: Ambito
