Local campaigns begin in Chiapas amid cartel siege

In the midst of the territorial dispute between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, candidates for municipal presidents and local deputies started campaigns yesterday, preceded by kidnappings, homicides and threats to mayors and candidates for elected positions.

At the beginning of the activities, 24 candidates for local electoral districts and 123 for mayors and members of city councils participate.

The current fight waged by the two criminal organizations in the Central, Frailesca, Sierra, Altos, Fronteriza and Selva regions, has caused the disappearance of two candidates to occupy the mayor’s office of Frontera Comalapa, of which, to date, have not yet appeared . The first Iran Mérida Matamoros, who was kidnapped on December 14 and Rey David Gutiérrez Vázquez, candidate of the Labor Party (PT), who was taken from his house last Saturday at 11:00 p.m. by an armed group, in the Belisario Domínguez neighborhood.

Of the 124 municipalities, in Oxchuc, the election of the mayor will be carried out through the “internal regulatory system”, where the mayor is elected in a plebiscite that takes place in the central park of that Tzeltal indigenous municipality, as they used to. to do it in various places in Chiapas.

The Chiapas Elections Institute reported that according to data from the State Candidacy Registration System, 14,650 people registered for a popular election position. The electoral process will last 30 days, which runs from April 30 to May 29, the organization explained.