The opposition Broad Front for Mexico officially announced this Thursday that its presidential candidate for the 2024 elections will be Xóchitl Gálvez, a senator from the right-wing National Action Party (PAN).
“After all the agreements reached, today we know that Senator Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz will lead the leadership of the Broad Front for Mexico“, said Arturo Sánchez Gutiérrez, a member of the Organizing Committee of the alliance, at a press conference. Gálvez will lead the front, also made up of the parties of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary (PRI), which will face the party of the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), which will define his presidential candidacy on September 6.
“Xóchitl represents the hope of Mexico, of a Mexico without limits, of a united Mexico and of a prosperous Mexico.“, expressed Armando Tejeda, national secretary of elections of the PAN.
Gálvez, a businesswoman and indigenous woman from the central state of Hidalgo, has been the opponent who has most frontally confronted López Obrador, a fact that prompted her after announcing her presidential aspirations just last June.
Although the PAN member had to face PRI senator Beatriz Paredes in a public consultation on Sunday, the PRI member resigned on Wednesday after an official poll by the opposition alliance was released that gave 57.6% of the preferences to Gálvez.
For this reason, the front canceled the vote and, instead, will hold an event on Sunday at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City, where it will deliver the winner’s certificate to Gálvez, as revealed by the Organizing Committee.
“How did we reach the decision to say today, formally, that Xóchitl Gálvez will be the person responsible for the construction of the Broad Front for Mexico? You have heard it with my colleagues, the requests of the parties have been established, ”said Marco Baños, a member of the committee.
Although hours before López Obrador dismissed the process as a “farce” because he predicted from the beginning that they would “impose” Gálvez, the opposition alliance defended that 33 applicants and 3 million possible voters were registered in the process.
“It is an exercise that has already left its mark on the history of the country and it was like that because for the first time the parties and civil society make decisions that previously only corresponded to them,” said Sánchez Gutiérrez.
Gálvez’s candidacy is also historic because it will be the first time that the PRI and the PAN, Mexico’s two traditional rivals, are allies in a presidential election. “Today, here, we express our great satisfaction for reaching this point of our great national project, above all, united and strengthened. United, precisely, because for us unity is not synonymous with uniformity“, remarked Rolando Zapata, secretary of electoral action of the PRI.
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