The state president of the tricolor explained that part of the special sanctioning procedures against the opposition candidacy derive from the participation of the federal government in the electoral process since, he assured, they want to steal the election.
“We have denounced it because it has been clearly, I do not remember a previous campaign, where we governed (PRI) at the federal level, that the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Foreign Relations, the governors, the head of government (of Mexico City)”, he referred in an interview.
MORENA has already realized that they are going to lose Hidalgo’s election, that’s why the government is doing everything to steal the election. We will not allow it! We will win resoundingly with @caroviggiano! ???? pic.twitter.com/ETMHguD1ns
– Alejandro Moreno (@alitomorenoc)
May 19, 2022
Valera Piedras pointed out that there is interference from the federal government in the campaign that the PRI has denounced, “that corroborates the data we have that they want to steal the election, that there is no good game but a bad game.” Without specifying the instances they attended or the precise number of procedures, she commented that only The PRI has filed at least 80 complaints for different acts of interference.
The also licensed local deputy recalled the recent visits by Secretaries of State to Hidalgo to support the common candidate of Morena, Nueva Alianza and Partido del Trabajo, Julio Menchaca Salazar, and mentioned that the officials must be working on the corresponding tasks, however there is a presence of the federal government fully involved in the process.
On May 1, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, accompanied candidate Julio Menchaca to a political rally in Acatlán; Later, on the 8th of the same month, the Morenoite candidate held a meeting with female supporters in Pachuca, in which the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the governors of Colima and Campeche, Indira Vizcaíno Silva and Layda Sansores San participated. Roman, respectively.
Meanwhile, on May 21, Progreso de Obregón attended a proselytizing act by the Morenoist candidate Adán Augusto López Hernández, Secretary of the Interior, and Rubén Rocha Moya, Governor of Sinaloa.
When questioned about whether they would seek the annulment of the election with the lawsuits filed, the PRI state leader ruled it out. “I don’t think that will happen because we are going to go with everything, we are going to go strong and we are going to win; We are with the law in hand and we are going to denounce everything that implies interference and illegality, and in that vein it will be the electoral authorities, jurisdictional authorities in which we have full confidence, that dictate what is appropriate, ”he said.
