(29 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Reyes La Paz, Estado de México, Mexico – 29 May 2024
1. Xóchitl Gálvez, candidate for the PRI, PAN and PRD coalition "Force and Heart for Mexico," waving a Mexican flag among other candidates on stage
2. Wide of rally
3. Candidates standing besides Gálvez
4. Various of rally, Gálvez speaking on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Xóchitl Gálvez, candidate for the PRI, PAN and PRD coalition "Force and Heart for Mexico:"
"You are going to have the bravest president. I am going to defend your family, I am going to protect your sons, I am going to take care of your daughters. Don’t forget that."
6. Various of supporters at rally
7. Various of supporters dancing and carrying signs on crosses
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio González, supporter to Xóchitl Gálvez:
"I’m joyful because it is my conviction, I am not a paid supporter but came here with conviction to my party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who are going in coalition with the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and the National Action Party (PAN)."
9. Supporters at rally
10. Supporter wearing mask
11. Band playing at rally
STORYLINE:
Mexican opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez addressed supporters during a closing rally for her presidential election campaign on Wednesday.
For nearly a hundred years, the now mostly residential area on the outskirts of Mexico City chosen by Gálvez to close her campaign, has been a stronghold of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, one of the three parties in the coalition she is heading.
Gálvez, an opposition senator and tech entrepreneur, represents a coalition of parties that have had little historically to unite them other than their recent opposition to current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
It is made up of the conservative National Action Party, the small progressive Democratic Revolution Party, and the old-guard Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, that held Mexico’s presidency without interruption between 1929 and 2000.
Gálvez, a woman who went from a poor Indigenous town to starting her own tech firm, has been the wild card in the race, literally: her plain-spoken, folksy approach has produced both punchy phrases and monumental gaffes.
She is facing the candidate of López Obrador’s Morena party, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum, who leads in the race, has promised to continue absolutely all of López Obrador’s policies.
The third candidate is little-known Jorge Álvarez Máynez, a former federal congressman from the Citizen Movement party. He has focused on trying to scoop up the young vote, but has not gotten much traction.
Mexicans will vote Sunday in an election weighing gender, democracy and populism, as they chart the country’s path forward in voting shadowed by cartel violence.
With two women leading the contest, Mexico will likely elect its first female president. More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, according to the National Electoral Institute.
AP video shot by: Amaranta Marentes
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