Losing presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez and National Action Party (PAN) leader Marko Cortés have announced that the opposition will file challenges against what they believe was an unfair presidential election in Mexico, in which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador intervened and “the entire state apparatus” was used to favor Claudia Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum, candidate for the ruling Morena party, easily won the presidential election, attracting 59% of the vote to beat Gálvez by more than 30 points, according to results announced by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Morena and its allies also won big majorities in both houses of federal Congress.
Gálvez, who represented an opposition bloc made up of the PAN, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), said in a social media post on Monday that she was aware that there was “a lot of confusion” and “many doubts” about the results of the presidential election.
However, she noted that she had acknowledged her defeat “because I’m a democrat and I believe in the institutions.”
“I trust INE’s quick count, it’s a statistical exercise devised by the country’s best data scientists. I know that the results surprise us and that’s why we must analyze what happened. We all knew we faced an unequal competition against the entire state apparatus dedicated to favoring its candidate,” Gálvez wrote without offering specific examples about how the government allegedly helped Sheinbaum.
She subsequently noted that organized crime groups made a violent intervention in the electoral process, “threatening and even murdering dozens of aspirants and candidates.”
“This doesn’t end here,” Gálvez declared.
“We will present the challenges that prove what I am telling you and what we all know. And we’ll do it because we can’t allow another election like this one. Today more than ever we must defend our democracy and our republic,” she wrote.
“The counterbalances and the division of powers remain at risk. … We’re the resistance and we must do what we have to do: defend Mexico from authoritarianism and bad government,” Gálvez added.
Cortés decries “enormous inequity” in the election
PAN national president Marko Cortés said Tuesday that the party he leads would launch a challenge against what he described as a “state election in which the president directly intervened.”
He asserted that López Obrador repeatedly violated the constitution and electoral laws during the electoral period and spent large amounts of public money to favor Claudia Sheinbaum and Morena.
“All this created enormous inequity in the contest,” Cortés said, according to a statement released by the PAN.
The party leader said that the PAN would “continue defending our country” from both houses of federal Congress and the states it governs. Cortés also said the PAN would “defend every vote” cast for Gálvez and the party’s other candidates.
“We acknowledge that the [electoral] results … don’t favor us, but we also point out that the election was not clean nor legitimate, that it was never a level playing field,” he said.
Cortés also expressed regret over the opposition’s failure to convince the majority of Mexicans of “the enormous authoritarian risk we face.”
“… We were surprised that the social enthusiasm [for the opposition alliance] felt in the streets wasn’t reflected at the ballot boxes,” he said.
“It’s very concerning because … the votes favor an authoritarian model that seeks to override democracy and the balance of powers,” Cortés said in reference to López Obrador’s proposals to overhaul the judicial system and eliminate numerous autonomous government agencies.
“We are democrats and we will always recognize the will of the majority when its truly legitimate … [but] we can’t stop denouncing and challenging when the constitution and the electoral law were repeatedly violated,” he added.
AMLO: Sunday’s election was “the cleanest” in history
Asked at his Tuesday morning press conference about the opposition’s announcement that it would challenge the election, President López Obrador said that the government’s opponents, including Cortés, were within their rights to do so.
However, he asserted that they had nothing to complain about.
“The election on Sunday was the cleanest and freest that has existed in history,” López Obrador said before revising his remarks.
The election was the cleanest “possibly since” Francisco I. Madero was elected as Mexico’s president in 1911, claimed AMLO, who last year was ordered by the INE to abstain from speaking about electoral issues after Gálvez complained about remarks he made about her.
López Obrador said that the PAN and the other opposition parties need to “breathe deeply, undertake a serious reflection and try to understand what happened” on Sunday.
“… Self-criticism is very important, it’s very important to know how to improve,” said AMLO, who lost the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections as a PRD candidate before winning with Morena in 2018.
“Wise people change their minds,” he added.
Mexico News Daily
Good grief 😔 ☹️ I was so pleased when she came out early and acknowledged Shinbaum’s win. Now she’s pulling a Trump move and imho loses all credibility. She failed to present a viable alternative to the status quo and she lost big time! Go away!
You are delusional with Trump derangement syndrome.
She is Morena/AMLO/socialist/Authoritarian/marxist.
She was chosen from the beginning.
Former Mexico City Mayor.
She is OSheinbaum.
With AMLO’s claim of the cleanest election in history just like OBiden. No need to look, notihng to see.
She has a supermajority in the congress and copy cat female socialist wins all across Mexico including Mexico City for the next 6 years.
The most powerful Narco State ever.
I think there’s a big difference between “the circumstances under which we lost were unfair” (which seems to be Galvez and PAN’s argument) and “the election results are false and the president was not legitimately elected” which is the position taken by Trump (and previously AMLO).
Go with grace and learn from your defeat…..Unfortunately this is not the case
Like Trumpy, it is sad to see that his BS is making it around the world. Gálvez lost spectacularly…hardly an election to challenge.
You ned to take some Ivermectin (horse paste) for that Trump derangement syndrome.
Maybe some Hydroxycloriquine (fish tank cleaner) for that TDS.
You are one nasty person! I have noticed your personal attacks on many posts now. If you love tRUMP so much I suggest you take his advice and inject some bleach! Moron, you aren’t making any friends with your asinine personal comments.
Galvez is a sore loser. I hope she doesn’t incite a Trump style insurrection.
I was not given a REPLY option, so I will do it this way.
Caguichie June 5, 2024 At 7:39 pm
You are one nasty person! I have noticed your personal attacks on many posts now. If you love tRUMP so much I suggest you take his advice and inject some bleach! Moron, you aren’t making any friends with your asinine personal comments.
I am proTrump because I was a Democrat for 35 years and Trump woke me up after I voted for liar Obama twice and liar Hillery once.
Trump did everything he said he was going to do and it all came up great just like he said.
The worst part is people hate him so much they don’t look at his 4 years and they don’t see that he is being third world persecuted and if the deep state can do that to a billionaire former president we can all be censored and locked up quietly and forever.
You will get your wish, Trump will be incarcerated on lies and made up charged and he will die in prison but always remember because they will be you in the future.
One of you socialist marxists called him my “Orange Jesus”….He knew 50/50 what could happen if he ran but he loves his country, didn’t need the money, donated his presidential pay to Veterans every quarter. This death sentence he knows is coming. He knew it the moment that kangaroo democrat Trump hating court read guilty for 34 bullshyt felony made up charges, retroactively revived after 10 years, misdemeanors for an accountant made felonies charged on Trump. ABSURD.
You people are sick and evil. It’s going to come back to bite you in the you know where.
I weep for our Republic and there is nowhere in the World to go.
People around the World look for Trump to save the Free West and it will all come to an end nov.6th.
I’m glad i’m 66 and prepared to watch the World die, I’m tired and tired of trying to show the light to evil people.
And all you men in Mexico, nothing will change as under AMLO except, get ready because your mother is coming with a really big stick and learn your DEI and CRT and you men are to blame for everything.
Mexico now has a atheist, marxist, globalist cabal failed narco state running it.
It quashed the Christian Conservative Candidate of Eduardo Verastegui
Look for the new VIVA MEXICO PARTY.
X@EVerstegui
Wow! What a lot of verbal flatulence! This is what you resort to when you have nothing of substance to say! If you’re so down on México and the leaders who the people elected by a landslide maybe you should just go away! Try a little tolerance and fewer negative comments!
HAPPY SPEECH DOES NOT NEED PROTECTING.
YOU PREFER I BE CENSORED OR ARE YOU SUGGESTING TO SOMEONE THAT I BE DISAPPEARED.
I’M NOT DOWN ON MEXICO, I LOVE MEXICO OTHERWISE I WOULD NOT CARE.
I STATE THE OBVIOUS AND HOW THE ELECTIONS ARE BEING MANIPULATED FOR YEARS AND SO DO MANY OTHERS.
MAY I ASK IF YIU ARE A MALE OR A FEMALE?
Very sad to see US/Canadian political trends come to Mexico. There would be no Trump without an Obama – so maybe let’s admit our cultures are going to sh*t, and work toward respecting one another again… don’t drag Mexico down with us.
Stop it children!!!! Don’t make us pull this country over to the side of the road!!!! If you want to hurl fruitless political tirades at each other move back to the US!! It’s a national pastime there.