▲ Américo Villarreal, from Together We Will Make History, had a preference range of 49.5 to 52.7 percent.Photo the day
Martin Sanchez and Carlos Figueroa
correspondents
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, June 6, 2022, p. 5
Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., Américo Villarreal Anaya, candidate for governor of the alliance Together We Will Make History, made up of Morena, PT and PVEM, emerged last night as the virtual winner of the electoral contest.
With the data received at 8:30 p.m., and accounting for 90.7 percent of the total sample of polling stations (300), the Quick Count Technical Advisory Committee reported that Villarreal Anaya had a range of 49.5 to 52.7 percent of the votes; César Verástegui Ostos, champion of the Va por Tamaulipas alliance, made up of PAN, PRI and PRD, had between 41.7 and 44.8 percent; while Arturo Diez Gutiérrez Navarro, from Movimiento Ciudadano, achieved from 3 to 3.4 percent.
José Ramos Charre, president councilor of the Electoral Institute of Tamaulipas, announced that citizen participation in these elections was between 51.6 and 55.6 percent and detailed that the final calculation will be made on Wednesday in the district committees of the organization.
Several incidents marked this election day in the entity; the first was reported in Nuevo Laredo, at 5:10 in the morning, two hours and 50 minutes before the polls opened.
Agents from the state prosecutor’s office and members of the Superior State Audit Office conducted a search of the municipal treasury, accompanied by agents from the investigative and state police; The diligence lasted seven hours.
It transpired that an arrest warrant was issued against the Morenista mayor Carmen Lilia Canturosas, who has repeatedly denounced a campaign of political attacks by the current PAN governor, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca; The municipal president has a federal protection that protects her from any action against her.
In the afternoon, members of the National Guard detained PAN member Eduardo Alvarado, a former federal legislator and former mayor of the municipality of Padilla, when he was allegedly buying votes for his party in the orange regions of Padilla and Güémez.
In addition, state police officers arrested Dámaso Anaya, director of Rural Development of Ciudad Victoria, when he was distributing money on the outskirts of the capital; The uniformed officers confiscated the cash, manila paper envelopes for payroll with names and numbers, presumably from sectionals, as well as lists of the National Electoral Institute and propaganda of the Morena candidate.
Meanwhile, Humberto Prieto, a local Morenista deputy, released a video on social networks where he and a group of collaborators removed punchallantas on a street in the Cumbres neighborhood, in the border city of Reynosa, where box number 1074 was located.
Manuel Muñoz, president of the PVEM in the state, denounced that members of his party were detained; Meanwhile, Morena pointed out that he has documented cases of vote buying in the sugarcane region, where Verástegui Ostos is from.
In its report at 5:30 in the afternoon, the entity’s Electoral Institute indicated that two armed men traveling in a black vehicle stole the ballot boxes from the basic and adjoining polling stations 0947 B and C, which were in the Francisco J. Mujica secondary school, in the Rivereña neighborhood, in the border city of Reynosa.
He pointed out that gunmen detonated in the vicinity of the basic and adjoining polling stations 0742, which were in the urban area of the border municipality of Miguel Alemán, which caused the officials and polling station representatives to leave the place.
Verastegui Ostos, the trickcandidate of the Va por Tamaulipas alliance, affirmed that he has a slight advantage over Morena’s candidate, but that he will wait for the final results of the elections.
In a press conference, briefly, he announced that his legal body will surely resort to the electoral instances.
