Mexican Elections 2024

On a side event, Eduardo Verástegui, the Trump admirer, ultra Catholic, right wing activist, didn't gather enough citizen signatures to be in the ballot as an Independent presidential candidate.
As a good trumpian, he claimed fraud, even if he didn't even gather 25% of the 900,000 ca. signatures needed.

Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizens' Movement) has finally decided for a substitute candidate for President, instead of Samuel García.

Jorge Álvarez Máynez.


Álvárez Máynez, 38, is the coordinator of MC's representatives in the Chamber of Deputies. He's very close to Dante Delgado, the party boss, and was coordinator for the brief campaign of García.

Actually it was governor García and his influencer wife who unveiled the candidacy, in a Tiktok where all three of them were sipping beers. Máynez is presented as "the new new man" for new politics.

It hasn't started well for him. Enrique Alfaro, governor of MC's stronghold, Jalisco, criticized both the form and the substance of Álvarez Maynez "unveiling".
Although the candidate has been a solid representative, he's not well known outside the "red circle" of politically interested people. And, most likely, he lacks the charisma of García.
It seems to me that it will be a merely testimonial candidacy.

I'm following, thank you for the information.

A few updates:

Last week all (pre)candidates has their closing (precandicacy) meetings:

Claudia Sheinbaum



Xóchitl Gálvez



As you can see, Mexicans love to gather in big crowds.

Jorge Álvarez Máynez

This week, so far, Claudia Sheinbaum is now the official candidate for the Morena Coalition, Jorge älvarez Máynez is the official candidate for Movimiento Ciudadano and Xóchitl Gálvez is the official candidate for PRD.
Unlike Sheinbaum, she did not have a unified event to become official. Each party wants to party by themselves.

Álvarez Máynez chose (senator and former social-democrat presidential candidate) Patricia Mercado as his proyect coordinator. This means that Movimiento Ciudadano will be clearly moving to the left.

It's good to see the candidates are mostly under 50.

Only half of the ones I’ve mentioned are under 50.

For President:
Sheinbaum is 61
Gálvez is 60
Álvarez Máynez is 38

For Mexico City:
Brugada is 59
Chertorivski is 49
Taboada is 38

Of course, they’re kids compared to US candidates.

Absolutely.

Sheinbaum & Gàlvez appear much younger than their ages—to me.

We're the geezers now, Lash.

For sure.

Not in the close-ups.

Latest poll, by El Financiero

Sheinbaum 53%
Gálvez 36%
Álvarez Máynez 11%

(netting the undecided)

Same poll, for Congress:

Morena-PT-PVEM (government coalition) 49%
PAN-PRI-PRD (Front) 37%
Movimiento Ciudadano 13%

Hahaha.

Holy poop buckets! Hello, old friend. How the hell are you?

How am I? I’m getting old, but still younger than you.
Good to see you, Bernie… in posts at least.

A telling take of English and Mexican Presidential candidates:

Xóchitl Gálvez is in the US, and has had talks with US government officials about the bilateral relationship between the two countries. The Morena activists in social media have immediately reacted, not about the substance of the talks, but about Xóchitl”s horrible attempts to speak English, comparing them to Claudia Sheinbaum”s fluent English.
The funny thing is that, 6 years ago, when the Front’s candidate, Ricardo Anaya, appeared speaking fluent English, he was attacked by the very same activists, as a man who knew the rest of the world but didn’t know Mexico, unlike proudly monolingual candidate López Obrador.

So knowing English can be an asset or a liability, depending if he’s your guy/gal or not.

There’s so much grasping at the trivial to ignore the substantial in public life now.
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