The candidates of President AMLO’s party did not achieve victory or the long-awaited reelection, losing the capital and key urban centers for the megaprojects of the 4T such as the Interoceanic Corridor
Oaxaca de Juárez.— Although preliminary results indicate that in Oaxaca Morena swept the 25 local electoral districts, as well as the federal districts and the two senatorial seats, the ruling party also lost in the main cities of the state, including Oaxaca de Juárez, the state capital, Tuxtepec, the industrial center in the north of the territory, Salina Cruz, the “crown jewel” of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and Huajuapan de León, the main urban center of the Mixteca region.
According to the information provided by the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) with 95.86% of the tallies counted, there were only elections in 147 of the 152 municipalities that are governed by the political party system. It also indicates that in these elections, Morena was the party that won the majority of the municipalities with a total of 50 in which it competed alone; plus 13 other municipalities in which it participated in a coalition with the PT, Fuerza por México and PVEM parties.
However, the data detail that the president’s party lost the reelection in the city of Oaxaca to the mayor on leave Francisco Martínez Neri, who despite announcing an 18-point advantage yesterday, is currently in second place behind Raymundo Chagoya Villanueva, candidate of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), who holds a two-percentage-point advantage, with the Morena candidate obtaining 27.2% of the vote compared to the Green candidate’s 29.3%.
In the case of Tuxtepec, the Labor Party (PT) candidate Fernando Huerta Cerecedo won the electoral contest in the municipality of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the second largest in Oaxaca, with a wide advantage of more than 10 thousand votes against his closest opponent, the Morena candidate Irineo Molina Espinoza.
According to the PREP, Fernando Huerta obtained 48% of the votes, with more than 30 thousand votes in his favor, against 20 thousand for Molina Espinoza who had 32% of the total votes.
In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the PT won the most important municipalities that make up the so-called Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT), such as Salina Cruz, Ciudad Ixtepec and Matías Romero, according to the PREP of the State Electoral Institute (IEEPCO).
In Salina Cruz, considered the jewel in the crown of the Trans-Isthmus Project, the PT won with the candidate Daniel Méndez Sosa, who left the Morena ranks unhappy with the designation of his party in favor of Yesenia Nolasco Ramírez, former president of Tehuantepec.
With 92.8% of the polling station records captured, Méndez Sosa had 18,513 votes, against 6,778 votes in favor of the local deputy on leave Yesenia Nolasco Ramírez, whose appointment divided the Morena party.
Finally, in the Mixteca, according to the PREP, Morena lost the main municipalities of the region, such as Huajuapan de León and Tlaxiaco. In Huajuapan, the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) in alliance with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Luis de León Martínez Sánchez, remains the virtual winner with 14,430 votes, and in second place, Pedro Marcelino Silva Salazar, candidate of Morena in coalition with the PVEM and Nueva Alianza Oaxaca, achieving only 10 thousand votes.
While in the city of Tlaxiaco, the Morena party also lost, placing itself in third position.
According to the PREP, at 3:40 p.m. on June 3, the slate of Jorge Octavio Hernández Martínez, from the Nueva Alianza Oaxaca party, in coalition with Fuerza con México, was the winner for the municipal presidency with 5,742 votes. Meanwhile, the independent candidate, Iván Montes Jiménez, came in second with 4,769 votes.
Meanwhile, Miguel de Jesús Pérez Vásquez, candidate of the Morena party in alliance with Verde Ecologista, barely reached 3,643 of the preferences, remaining in third position.
Source: eluniervsal
