The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, denied this Tuesday the accusations of machismo made by Senator Xóchitl Gálvezfavored to be the opposition presidential candidate, though she insisted that a group of powerful men chose her.
No, that does heat up,” the president responded about the accusations to an express question at his morning press conference.
I respect your point of view. I already clarified yesterday that she is the candidate of the power mafia”, he added.
His statements come after the exchange of accusations on Monday between the president and Gálvez, of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN).
The senator accused López Obrador of being a macho after the president stated that she will be the candidate for the June 2024 presidential elections of the Va por México alliance due to the imposition of businessman Claudio X. González, one of his biggest political rivals.
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You, Mr. President, are a sexist. The only women you respect are the ones you impose, because machos like you are scared of an independent and intelligent woman, in my life no one has given me anything,” she said in a video.
The president now reiterated that the legislator “is the candidate” of former presidents Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) and Vicente Fox (2000-2006), in addition to “Claudio X. González and other influence peddlers.”
For this reason, she stressed that the process to elect the presidential candidate of Va por México, which begins this Tuesday and ends on September 3, is a “simulation” because she is already the chosen one.
She is the candidate of those who want to return by their privileges, because they want to continue plundering the country, they wanted to deceive that a democratic process was going to take place, when the truth was that the consultation was made up among the top brass and they chose her ”, López Obrador maintained.
The confrontation occurs a week after the senator revealed her presidential aspirations, which consolidated her as the favorite to represent the alliance of the PAN, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD).
Meanwhile, the ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), has been searching for a successor to López Obrador for two weeks, a process that will be defined on September 6.
If the preferences remain as the polls indicate now, Gálvez could face Claudia Sheinbaum, the former head of government of Mexico City and current favorite of Morena, in the 2024 elections.
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