Some 23 candidatesincluding the three presidential candidates, have asked for protection from the Government of Mexico given the risk of violence, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, reported this Tuesday.
We currently have 23 requests for protection, three of whom are competing for the presidency of the republic for the coalitions Let’s Keep Making History (Claudia Sheinbaum), Fuerza y Corazón (Xóchitl Gálvez), and Movimiento Ciudadano (Jorge Álvarez Máynez), who already have protection ”,
Rodríguez confirmed.
Heading into the elections on June 2, the data presented by the secretary in the morning conference of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, showed that 19 of the requests have been from the opposition and only four have been from parties allied with the Government.
In addition to the presidential candidates, three candidates for state governments, seven candidates for the Senate and 10 seeking to be deputies have requested protection.
The official maintained that the Government “is committed to ensuring that the 2024 electoral process is carried out peacefully.”
This is our responsibility. “For this reason, we present a plan so that all candidates who request it have protection and security and are certain that they will be able to carry out their campaigns with the support of the Government and that there will be personnel to protect them,”
express.
Although the official campaigns began last Friday, the consulting firm Data Int documented on Monday the murder of 20 people who aspired to a popularly elected position so far this electoral year, in which a total of 76 people “potentially linked” have been killed. to the process.”
With this, there are 20% more murders than in the 2021 elections, according to this count.
To have protection, candidates must apply to National Electoral Institute (INE)which turns the request to the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC)he Army and National Guardas detailed by Rodríguez.
If the risk level is high, the candidate receives an escort of 10 officers with four vehicles, if it is medium it is eight officers in three vehicles, and if it is low it is two agents and a car, the official said.
He Government of Mexico “The requests are pending so that they are immediately attended to and the entire process is carried out peacefully,”
he insisted.
The last political murder was that of Alfredo González Díaz, candidate for the Labor Party (PT) to be mayor of Atoyac de Álvarez, a municipality in the southern state of Guerrero, over the weekend.
Rodríguez argued that “state and municipal governments are responsible for the safety of those who aspire to locally elected positions.”
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