by the El Reportero’s wire services
In the middle of the recent disturbances that have shaken Mexico during the past June 7 elections Eduardo Ceja Gil won the election as mayor of the city of Santiago Tangamandapio, Michoacán. He is a close relative of one of our colleagues in El ReporteroTV.
The mayor-elect, who won by a small margin of 31 votes, and whose candidacy was his first political experience, faces now the PRI machine, which is not accepting defeat. The PRI, which has been the incumbent for more than three periods, have begun a process to contest the votes, according to sources.
Sources describe Ceja-Gil campaign, as clean and without affronts to his opponents, nor buying votes.
In a wall of Facebook, Hugo Gutiérrez expressed his frustruación against the Revolutionary Independent Party (PRI):
“It is a shame that (after) the people decided that Eduardo Ceja Gil should be our (municipal president), the dinosaurus of the PRI are even capable of manipulating false voting prescinds to steal from him the legitimate victory he obtained … they already invented reforms to destroy the people, they already disappeared 43 students, they already sold our oil, our water, what more proof do you people want that the PRI is not good…”
Around Mexico elections leave 21 dead
Twenty one people were killed in situation of violence related with political parties and election process in Mexico, broadcast the local media today.
The list includes candidates on the short list and candidates for a popular election position, campaign managers, officials or former officials, activists, relatives or companions of the victims who were killed from October to date, when three days left for June 7 elections.
That day will be chosen 996,000 popular election posts, including the full House of Representatives, nine governors and other state and municipal posts.
The most recent victim was Miguel Angel Luna, a candidate for federal deputy for the Democratic Revolution Party (DRP), in a district of the Mexico state, two days ago.
On May 27 at night, Israel Hernández, coordinator of the campaign of the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to local deputy for the district three of Azcapotzalco, Aida Beltrán Sánchez district, was killed in the garage of her home in Mexico DF.
In Puebla, on May 26, was assassinated, Jose Salvador Mendez, campaign coordinator of Lorenzo Rivera, PRI candidate to federal deputy, when talking with the man outside of the party offices in the state capital.
One case that drew national attention was that of Enrique Hernandez, candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to the municipal presidency of Yurécuaro, Michoacan, killed on May 14.
The corpses of Martin Alonso Colmenero and Francisco Javier Aguilar, members of the Ministry of Youth Action of the National Action Party, in Chihuahua, were located in an area of sthe state capital, last March 21.
The long list includes several representatives of various political organizations and not very few of these deaths were attributed to organized crime, a factor present in the current Mexican elections.
