Morena’s directive erred in the calculation and despite the fact that it shortened the registration period for the candidates for the six governorships that will be nominated by the ruling party, 153 candidates sent their documentation to the National Elections Commission.
For each of the six candidacies, 25 applicants. But only four —in each case— will be included in the survey to nominate the representatives of the Fourth Transformation. Final appointments, according to the call signed by Mario Delgado and Citlalli Hernández, which was barely made public, had to undergo two amendments. One, to set registration times. And another, to eliminate locks … and possible challenges.
The applicants, said the original proposal, had to be natives of the entities that seek to govern or be neighbors with effective residence of no less than three years immediately prior to the day of the elections. Those with a federal position had to resign definitively before December 31, 2021. And those who were related – by consanguinity, up to the fourth degree, or by affinity, up to the second – with the outgoing governor, were excluded.
Among those affected, two from Tamaulipas: José Ramón Gómez Leal, brother-in-law of Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, and Rodolfo González Valderrama, who was still in charge of RTC three months ago. Before the records were closed, the candidates for the candidacies of Tamaulipas and Durango paraded through the office of the national president of Morena. And the misunderstandings cleared up, the excluded proceeded to register.
However, there was one close to the National Palace who abstained: Rafael Marín Mollinedo, in charge of the Interoceanic Corridor, who decided not to process his registration and to support Senator Maribel Villegas to oppose the negotiations that would leave the Green Party the candidacy in Quintana Roo.
This political formation confirmed its adherence to the electoral coalition in which, in addition to Morena and the PT, parties with local registration, such as Nueva Alianza and the PES, would join. The PVEM would propose the current mayor of Benito Juárez, Mara Lezama, for Quintana Roo and Senator Raúl Bolaños-Cacho for Oaxaca, but the Morenista convocation only contemplates the participation of morenistas and “protagonists of true change.”
Internal and external applicants will have to wait for the evaluation of the National Elections Commission, which will later commission the surveys that will define the six candidates.
In Durango, senators José Ramón Enríquez and Alejandro González Yáñez requested registration, in addition to the former coordinator of the Federal Protection Service, Manuel Espino Barrientos. The three, with partisan origins other than Morena, while Senator Lilia Margarita Valdez and Marina Vitela, mayor of Gómez Palacio, are also seeking the candidacy, under the protection of parity.
At the close of the records, the version of a federal investigation against the lagoon businessman Norberto Galindo, one of the main promoters of Vitela, began to circulate. Such inquiries – according to the same sources – also involve the mayor and are linked to the abuse and illegal hoarding of water.
And it is that —according to these versions— Galindo, —with great investments in the cattle field— would have seized more than 40 water wells and would be among the main responsible for the overexploitation of the aquifers in the Laguna. These reports emerged during the implementation of the Healthy Water for the Laguna program, one of the flagship projects of the current administration to provide water to the inhabitants of that border area between Durango and Coahuila, which will require an investment of 10,000 million pesos.
Vitela would contemplate a plan B, but the candidacy of Sí por México is already highly contested. Among the applicants are Héctor Arreola, Secretary of Education; the former mayor of the capital, Esteban Villegas, and the Secretary of Government, Héctor Flores.
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DISOBENDENT. Ricardo Aguilar Castillo, Pablo Gamboa Miner and Karina Barrón Perales are among the federal deputies of the PRI who abstained from voting on the Federation’s Expenditure Budget and defied the indications of Rubén Moreira and Alito Moreno.
LEGITIMATED. During three days – held on November 8, 9 and 11 – the workers of the remote betting centers and the draws of numbers of Grupo Caliente in Nuevo León went to the polls to ratify their affiliation to the collective contract signed by the company and the union headed by Tijuana leader Mario Madrigal. This consultation was supervised by personnel from the Federal Center for Conciliation and Arbitration.
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