Alida Juliani
Madrid, Feb 11 (EFE).- The candidate of the opposition coalition for the July elections in Mexico, Xóchitl Gálvez, assures that if she wins she will recover relations with Europe, and especially with Spain, a country that she says the current president of his country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “claims what his government has not done for indigenous peoples.”
Gálvez is in Madrid on a brief visit following his trip to the United States, during which he will meet with businessmen, social organizations and representatives of the main political parties.
Her idea is also to “make it clear in Spain that there is an important future relationship with Mexico,” following “this pause,” the candidate, who would have liked to visit, said this Sunday in an interview with EFE in the Spanish capital. other countries of the European Union, “but the days were not enough.”
Even so, he did not want to only give importance to the relationship with his neighbors in the United States, “which is a lot,” since “it is also important commercially and culturally with Europe, and especially with Spain, since countless things unite us.” .
“I believe that if we cannot change the past, we can change the future,” said Gálvez, head of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples during the mandate of former President Vicente Fox.
“The Mexican Government is obliged to change the future of indigenous peoples through the recognition of rights,” added the candidate of the Frente Amplio por México, who accused López Obrador of demanding from Spain what his Government has not done.
Two women and a very close election
Returning to Mexico, Gálvez will focus on the start of the campaign that he predicts will be “very tight.” He does not pay much attention to the surveys, since he considers that “they have not been very accurate” and are influenced by a clear intention of the ruling party to “inflate them so that people do not participate.”
“And in any case, two months ago I was 30 points away (from the official Morena candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum) and today I am 16 points away. The only thing that is clear is that I am growing,” he highlights.
He also denounces that there are almost 50% of Mexicans who decide not to answer the questions in the polls, so it is not known what their intention is when voting.
“But I know there is going to be a big surprise, I feel it in the street. Six years ago I was also a candidate for the Senate and I realized the gaps. Today I do not notice that rejection. There is an extremely close race between those who do not contest for fear that social programs will be taken away and those who say ‘it’s over.'”
The candidacies of Gálvez and Sheinbaum, former head of Government of Mexico City, followed at a distance by Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of Movimiento Ciudadano, place for the first time in history two women in the bid for the presidency of Mexico.
“It seems super important to me that there are two women, both with their own merit, leading the fight for the presidency. I do not take away merit from López Obrador’s candidate, it is a shame that she cannot have the strength that she should have,” says Gálvez. .
Her candidacy, she explains, is that of a woman who “comes from below, accustomed to fighting and winning,” while Sheinbaum represents “continuity, that is, giving in to insecurity, poor health management, extortion, problems from the field, to drought…”.
“What I have established is that hugs for criminals are over. I am not going to go greet Chapo Guzmán’s mother,” he emphasizes.
Bilateral agreements on migration
Gálvez also criticizes the immigration policy of López Obrador, who in his last agreement with the United States “agreed to be a safe third country, with nothing in return,” so immigrants “are in truly deplorable conditions.”
“What I have proposed is that, before accepting being a safe third country, there are two things: resources to wait in Mexico and that Mexican immigrants or Mexicans residing in the United States have access to a possibility of regularization, because many Of them meet the requirements, but they don’t have lawyers,” he says.
The Broad Front candidate for Mexico knows that she might coincide with former North American president Donald Trump in a hypothetical future presidency, something that does not worry her, since “in the end he is a practical man and so am I.”
“What is best for Trump? That Mexico grows economically and creates well-paid jobs. With the current Government there has been none of that. My vision is much more business-oriented, much more regarding development and economic growth. And I think that there we would understand each other well,” he concludes.
By: EFE
2024-02-11 16:15:24
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