Va por la CDMX’s candidate for mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, suffered a possible attack on her private car on the night of Saturday, May 11, on Francisco Tamagno Street, in the Peralvillo neighborhood; where she was shot approximately “six times.”
Due to the above, in front of the media, Alessandra demanded that the authorities “do their job and arrest those responsible for the shooting, but above all those who are behind the attack (…) to arrest those responsible materially and intellectually.”
With a firm tone, the candidate said that she will continue walking the streets of CDMX, “from six in the morning until ten at night.”
“Dirty wars triumph when we remain silent. For many, these elections are life or death (…) let’s choose peace,” said Rojo de la Vega. in the company of your team and candidates.
He stated that he will give us (his opponents) the pleasure, “we are going to continue in the fight and we are going to win, in the face of the attempt to keep silent over and over again, the union will emerge.”
How did Alessandra experience the attack?
At a press conference she stated that leaving a neighborhood assembly, a woman gave her a paper summoning her to arrive at an address.
With reservation, due to issues of the complaint that he presented to the Prosecutor’s Office and not being able to give so many details, he shared that at the time of leaving the meeting in Peralvillo he observed a subject with a helmet, who shot his car six times; Because she immediately crouched down and her driver took off in the direction of her house.
Without giving more details, he also said that he will share with the authorities the telephone numbers from which they spoke to his father to threaten him “that they were going to harm his daughters.”
Attacks
In the 2024 electoral process, the first attack against a candidate was recorded in Mexico City.
In this matter, the Data Cívica platform has documented that since 2018 and 2021 the increase in political-electoral violence has been consistent with the academy.
Data Cívica points out that The use of violence against candidates is a way to influence electoral results and in the case of the processes to the mayors it could give them everything from access to informal protection to resources.
It should be noted that the alternation in power generates “new cycles of violence.”
Although in the case of the mayor of Cuauhtémoc the opposition governs, to which the candidate Alessandra Rojo belongs.
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2024-05-13 08:37:52