The main demand of the population in Quintana Roo is security, and it will be one of the government’s priorities. darkroom photo.
Recovering peace and security, closing inequality gaps and implementing a new welfare and development agreement to generate shared prosperity are the priorities for the next state administration of Quintana Roo, said María Elena Lezama Espinosa, virtual governor-elect of that entity.
According to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program 2022, of the Electoral Institute of Quintana Roo, once the votes for Sunday were counted, the candidate of the alliance PVEM, PT, Morena and Fuerza por México, obtained 56.42% of the votes , followed by Laura Lynn Fernández Piña, from PAN, PRD and Confianza for Quintana Roo, who gathered 16.13%; José Luis Pech Várguez, from MC, with 13.13%; Josué Nivardo Mena, from the Authentic Social Movement, 7.10% and Leslie Hendrick, from the PRI, with 2.97 percent.
In the entity, 15 deputies were also elected, of which 14 won the alliance PVEM, PT, Morena and Fuerza por México and one the PVEM. To these will be added 10 plurinominal deputies.
Mara Lezama, as she is known in Quintana Roo, the former mayor of Cancun and a graduate in Communication Sciences from the Anahuac University, explained that the main demand of citizens is security. “That is the main challenge and we are going to achieve it,” she said.
To fulfill this commitment, he explained, work will be done on two fronts: reaction, through the use of intelligence and technology, as a strategy to clean up the police forces, both state and municipal, as well as attack the origins of violence, with the in order to “flat the tires on crime.” What will be sought is to prevent young people from being co-opted by delinquency, he stressed.
In 2021, Quintana Roo registered 46.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, which places it in 10th place in the states with the highest incidence of this crime, above the national average of 26.8.
According to the 2021 State Performance Index of Prosecutors and Prosecutors, prepared by Impunidad Cero, in Quintana Roo there are 17.2 public ministries for every 100,000 inhabitants, when the figure on a national scale is 10.4. In that place, 97.8% of intentional homicides go unpunished. On a national scale it is 89.6 percent.
The Criminal Traffic Light places Quintana Roo in green in homicides, kidnapping, extortion, home robbery, business robbery and femicide; in yellow, in car theft, injuries and family violence and in red in drug dealing and rape.
On the other hand, Lezama Espinosa said that his government will design public policies to reduce the inequality gaps that exist in that entity of the peninsula.
Lezama, who will be the first female governor of Quintana Roo, said that she will seek to implement a new welfare and development agreement that will generate shared prosperity for all Quintana Roo residents.
Before being nominated as a candidate for the governorship, Lezama Espinosa served as mayor of Benito Juárez (Cancún), a position she reached in 2018 and was re-elected in 2021.
According to data systematized by the organization Mexico, how are we doing?, Mara Lezama will receive a public administration with good grades in economic growth, combating informality and working poverty, and job creation, although there are red flags in the management of public debt.
Quintana Roo has as a goal to grow its economy at 4.5% per year. According to the Inegi, as of the third quarter of 2021 it registered a growth rate of 25.2% and the previous quarter, that indicator stood at 37.6%, although it was the rebound after seven quarters in the red.
On the other hand, Quintana Roo has the goal of creating 5,275 accumulated jobs. As of the first quarter of 2022, it registered 12,837, gathering a streak of four quarters of good figures, which began the first of 2021, with 12,042 and which had its highest mark in the fourth quarter of last year, with 67,203. The previous government left that indicator at 32,158 in the third quarter of 2016.