213 candidates leave the race just two weeks before election day; areas affected by crime stand out.
By Ángeles Mariscal
According to the records of the Institute of Elections and Citizen Participation (IEPC) of the state of Chiapas, just two weeks before the elections, 120 women and 93 men, candidates for positions in city councils and councils, have resigned. Massive resignations stand out in areas affected by organized crime.
For example, in the El Porvenir municipality, located in the mountain-border area, the entire staff of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) resigned from the positions of municipal president, trustee and councilors. The list was headed by Neyman Romas Roblero Mejía, who along with ten other people left the race, without specifying the reasons.
The candidates of the Chiapas Popular Party did the same in that same municipality of El Porvenir. The candidates of the local party Encuentro Solidario Chiapas in the municipality of Mezcalapa also resigned.
The candidates of the United Chiapas Party of the Mazapa de Madero and Ocozocuautla municipalities, the latter district affected by the violence of organized crime, resigned in their entirety.
The Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist (PVEM) also face massive resignations of their candidates in councils, and in municipalities in the indigenous area of Los Altos, the jungle, and on the coast.
On the part of Morena, Eddy Ricardo Vazquez López, candidate for the municipal presidency of Mazapa de Madero, leaves the candidacy; There are massive resignations of candidates from that party in Cintalapa and La Concordia, where clashes have occurred between members of organized crime.
Just this week the four bishops of Chiapas made a statement where they point out that “there are no conditions to vote in regions of Chiapas affected by violence,” particularly that generated by organized crime, which is impacting the geography of Chiapas.
The religious leaders said that in the candidates, “we did not find concrete proposals to respond to this reality that we are experiencing,” they noted. They also talked about the situation of “corruption at all levels of government” and widespread poverty.
Just last Thursday, the candidate for the municipal presidency of La Concordia, Lucero López, of the Chiapas Popular Party, was murdered. There are missing candidates, as in the Frontera Comalapa case; and attacks in which relatives of candidates have died, such as in Benemérito de Las Américas.
In Chiapas, those who will govern in the 123 city councils, 40 local councils and the position of governor will be chosen.
Source: aristeguinoticias
