In Mexico, the candidate of the opposition Front Xochitl Galvez promised “unity” and respect in the face of the “lies” and “insults” uttered according to her by the outgoing left-wing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, officially being invested Sunday for the June election.
“We will open the doors of the national palace,” promised Galvez, 60, a senator and entrepreneur of indigenous origin, who wants to become the first president in the country’s history.
His main rival should be another woman, the ex-mayor of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum, favorite of the primaries in progress within the ruling Morena party, the result of which is expected on Wednesday.
The doors of the presidential palace were closed “with lies, with insults, with hatred” and “to all those who did not think like them”, she hammered in front of thousands of supporters gathered in the center of Mexico City .
In her case, it is not just a metaphor: the senator launched her campaign and aroused the opposition last June after being herself turned away from the seat of the presidency, where she wanted to attend the conference of President’s Daily Press.
The native of the state of Hidalgo (center) wanted to respond directly to President Lopez Obrador, who attacks the opposition, media, radical feminists, environmental defenders every morning by calling them “conservatives” or members or accomplices of the “power mafia”.
“We are not going to resort to offense, insult, disqualification. Mexico needs a president who respects everyone,” proclaimed the opposition champion to the three parties that support within the “Broad Front” (Frente amplio).
“I don’t formally have a party,” she warned her three supporters (the right-wing PAN, the center-left PRD and the PRI, once dominant but losing momentum).
“I am politically colorblind. I only see one color, the color of Mexico,” said the outspoken senator.
Galvez once again sprinkled his speech with popular expressions that made his reputation: “Remember my golden rule: no assholes, no crooks, no bastards”.
“Barely a few months ago the opposition was disunited and demoralized,” she summed up. “If in two months we are on the verge of reaching Morena (Lopez Obrador’s party), it is because we can win”.
09/03/2023 22:06:55 – Mexico (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
