The controversial governor of Nuevo León, Samuel Garcia, He requested this Monday a six-month license to seek to be the presidential candidate of the opposition Citizen Movement (MC) in the 2024 elections.although he has only been assuming his current position for two years.
The request was presented in writing through his legal advisor, Ulises Carlin, in the Party Office of the Congress of Nuevo León, considered the most industrialized state in the country.
I inform you of the intention of the undersigned to participate in the 2023-2024 electoral process, and to be able to compete for the position of president of the United Mexican States,” the document states.
“Now, to carry out the above, the Federal Constitution in its article 82, section VI, requires that I not hold the position of governor and that I separate from the position 6 months before election day,” he adds.
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Furthermore, in the document, García reported that the Secretary General of the Government, Javier Navarro, He would remain in charge of the governor’s office.
Who is Samuel García?
García has served as governor of Nuevo León since October 4, 2021 after having won the elections to the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), organization of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador .
The governor left office despite the fact that in June, in an interview with EFE, he stated that he would not seek to be a presidential candidate until 2030.
Right now we are focused on Nuevo León, especially this important moment for Nuevo León requires a governor focused 100% on the state, so I am not going to get carried away with 2024,” he stated then.
The MC politician, who defines himself as a third way between the López Obrador Government and the traditional opposition, would face the ruling party candidate, Claudia Sheinbaumand that of the opposition Frente Amplio por México, Xóchitl Gálvez.
The local leader gained notoriety since the announcement last February of teslafrom the tycoon Elon Muskto open its largest factory in the world in that state with the expectation of producing one million electric vehicles a year and an investment of more than 5,000 million dollars.
Likewise, he is known for his skills on social networks, as shown by his 1.6 million followers on Instagram, and those of his wife, the “influencer” Mariana Rodríguez, who has 3.2 million fans on that social network and has appeared in the covers of social magazines nationwide.
But the use of these networks has also been controversial for the governor, who has been accused of making sexist and classist comments in his broadcasts.
The leader of MC, Dante Delgado, has announced that his party will not define its presidential candidate until the beginning of 2024.
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