The candidates play it without security; electoral process in 12 entities

Despite the insecurity in various entities, only 36 candidates for the 20,079 local positions at stake have requested protection from the electoral institutes and state authorities.

The above contrasts with the 107 candidates who have requested security for the federal process, in which 629 positions are disputed, including the Presidency.

Campaigns for local positions have already begun in Baja California Sur, CDMX, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla, Tabasco, Yucatán and Zacatecas. Until yesterday, in these entities the electoral institutes and state representatives reported 21 requests for protection.

In Michoacán, Morelos, Tamaulipas and Tlaxcala, where local campaigns will begin on April 15 and 30, there are 15 candidates who have already requested security.

In Sinaloa, Colima and Veracruz, Morenista standard-bearers have decided not to request protection, considering that violence is not widespread, despite the murder of 28 politicians so far this year. PAN members in Quintana Roo have adopted the same position.

In Guanajuato, where Gisela Gaytán, a Morenista candidate for mayor of Celaya, was murdered on Monday, there are 11 candidates with protection from the state. Tabasco registers five requests; Nuevo León, three and Jalisco, two.

In Morelos, at least 35 candidates have reported threats, although only one local candidate has formally requested security.

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CANDIDATES GO INTO THE ROUND WITHOUT PROTECTION

In the first days of the local electoral campaigns in 12 states of the country, and despite the atmosphere of insecurity that exists in various entities, only 36 candidates for the 20 thousand 79 positions that will be at stake in the local elections of this 2024 have requested protection from electoral institutes and state authorities.

This contrasts with the 107 candidates who have requested security as part of the federal electoral process, in which 629 positions are at stake, including the Presidency of the Republic.

Campaigns for local positions have already begun in Baja California Sur, CDMX, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla, Tabasco, Yucatán and Zacatecas. In these entities, until yesterday, the electoral institutes and state representatives reported 21 requests for protection by flag bearers.

Meanwhile, in Michoacán, Morelos, Tamaulipas and Tlaxcala, where local campaigns will begin on April 15 and 30, there are already 15 candidates who requested security.

Despite the murders of politicians so far this year, which total 28, in states such as Sinaloa, Colima and Veracruz, Morenista candidates have decided not to ask for security, considering that the violence is not generalized, but rather isolated cases. . PAN members in Quintana Roo have adopted the same position.

In Guanajuato, where Gisela Gaytán, a Morenista candidate for mayor of Celaya, was murdered last Monday, the Secretary of Government, Jesús Oviedo, reported that 11 candidates at the municipal and state level already have protection from the state.

After the murder of Gaytán, and although she acknowledged that she has not received threats, Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, candidate of the PAN, PRI and PRD coalition for governor, requested personal security from the Electoral Institute of the State of Guanajuato (IEEG).

You have to take the necessary measures. You know that we travel throughout the state and of course we always have to strengthen given the event that occurred in recent days,” he said yesterday, after sending his request to the IEEG.

The second state where the most local candidates already have protection is Michoacán, with 10, and two more that are about to be approved, according to what the Secretary of Government, Elías Ibarra Torres, reported yesterday. This is 11 days before the campaigns for deputies, municipal presidencies, receiverships and councilors begin.

In Tabasco, where the campaigns began on March 16, five local candidates have requested security from the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of Tabasco (IEPCT).

In Nuevo León, a state in which the campaigns began on March 31, two mayoral candidates and a local council have processed protection requests, confirmed yesterday Beatriz Camacho Carrasco, president advisor of the state electoral institute.

On April 1, Félix Arratia, Citizen Movement candidate for the municipal presidency of Juárez, presented the request and yesterday Elva Araceli Alonso, candidate for mayor of General Escobedo for the Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México coalition, made up of by the PRI, PAN and PRD parties.

For his part, Miguel Ángel Flores Serna, MC candidate for local deputy, submitted his application on April 2.

In the three cases, the requests have already been sent to the Civil Force, which is the competent authority to determine and apply personal security measures,” Camacho Carrasco established.

Meanwhile, the Jalisco Security Coordinator, Ricardo Sánchez Berumen, reported yesterday that two candidates for local positions, whose names were reserved for security, presented security requests through the state electoral institute. Local campaigns are already active in that entity.

In Morelos, at least 35 candidates have reported threats, although only one local candidate has formally requested security. So far, the State Prosecutor’s Office has not issued any request to grant precautionary measures of protection against any candidate in Morelos, despite the fact that the mayoral candidate for the Opposition Front for Cuautla, Jesús Corona, reported an attack on his life last year. March 25th.

Furthermore, the leaders of the opposition parties PRI, PAN, PRD and RSP, indicated on March 26 that more than a dozen of their candidates decided to suspend their registration due to threats, but it has not been reported whether the cases have already been investigated and prosecuted. .

Finally, in Tamaulipas and Tlaxcala, where the local campaigns will barely start, one candidate has requested protection, respectively.

– With information from Andres Guardiola, Aracely Garza, Pedro Tonantzin, Emmanuel Rincon, Alma Gudino, Carlos Coria, Karla Mendez and Lourdes Lopez

DELGADO ASKS FOR SECURITY FOR 40 MORENISTAS

The president of the Morena party, Mario Delgado, reported that he requested the federal government to protect candidates from that party in Guanajuato.

Delgado went to Guadalajara to accompany the presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, on her proselytizing tour and at the press conference she gave in the capital of Jalisco.

Yesterday, what I can inform you is that yesterday protection was requested for 40 candidates in Guanajuato and directly to the federal government, obviously through the INE, which is the agreement, but an exception is being requested so that it is attended to.

And it should not, it is not a matter of paperwork, it is not a matter of bureaucracy, it is a matter of political decision. In the case of the federal government, they say they will respond immediately to the requests that correspond to the federal government, which are the federal candidacies and the candidates for governor,” Delgado pointed out.

-Arturo Paramo

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