2023-08-31 01:46:02
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The main Mexican opposition parties gathered in the Broad Front for Mexico already have a candidate for the 2024 Mexican presidential elections. It will be Xóchitl Gálvez, a former businesswoman and former senator who has shaken the country’s political life since she gave to know their aspirations.
On Wednesday, four days before the end of the primary process in which the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the historically leftist PRD were involved, a poll was released that put Gálvez —backed by the PAN—- ahead of Beatriz Paredes, a PRI member with a long history.
And although the Front had planned, in addition to this poll, a consultation to be held on Sunday, it finally decided to cancel it and announce that Paredes was withdrawing to “privilege” the unity of the opposition and support the “most competitive” option to confront the ruling party. of the Morena party, PRI president Alejandro Moreno said.
“It is the decision that each and every one of us who are here has made,” he said in a message on Wednesday afternoon with members of the allied parties but in which Paredes was not present.
The PRI held the presidency of Mexico without interruption from 1929 to 2000, for 71 years.
Since announcing his aspirations, Gálvez has been the focus of criticism from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. According to his critics, this attention was due to the fact that he was already aiming to be the politician with the greatest possibilities of deluding a very weakened opposition. Thanks to his very popular way of expressing himself, he has reached the working class and the youth but, at the same time, allows her to move comfortably in political circles.
However, the ruling party, which controls Congress and the government of 22 of Mexico’s 32 states, is the big favorite in next year’s elections even though it still has no candidate.
Morena plans to announce on September 6 the name of who will compete against Gálvez when a series of planned surveys has concluded. Although there are several candidates, the closest fight is between two: the former head of government of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum, who is listed as a favorite, and the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard.
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