The electoral process, which began in June 2023 and ended on June 2 with the victory of the official presidential candidate in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumwill go down in history as the most violent with a total of 67 political actors dead, as estimated by the civil organization Causa en Común.
This assertion arises in response to the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who at the beginning of the week presented a report on the political violence that occurred in the last electoral process, in which she reported 12 murders of candidates. , double what the president reported last week, according to official statistics.
However, The organization described that it registered a total of 36 candidates and three already elected candidates were murdered during the 2024 electoral process in Mexicowhich made the elections the most violent stage in the country’s modern history.
In the breakdown, the organization indicated that of the 32 entities in the country, 17 recorded the murder of at least one politician and, mainly, the violence was concentrated in the states of Guerrero (southern), with 15 deaths; Chiapas (southeast), with 11, and Michoacán (west), with nine.
The majority of the reported murders, 92%, were at the municipal level and affected all political parties.
These figures exceed the 30 homicides of candidates in the 2021 election and the 24 in 2018.
Almost 42% of the political homicides affected the ruling party, National Regeneration Movement (Morena), followed by 14.9% of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and 13.4% of the National Action Party (PAN), the largest opposition force. .
Meanwhile, 7.5% were from the ruling Green Ecologist Party (PVEM), 6% from the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD); while the ruling Solidarity Meeting Party (PES), the opposition Citizen Movement and local groups accumulated 4.5%.
Finally, the ruling Labor Party accounted for 3%.
Violence was present even on the same election day, when hours before the opening of the voting centers, the candidate for trustee for Cuitzeo, Michoacán, Israel Delgado, of the ruling PT, was killed.
That same day, the headquarters of the National Electoral Institute (INE) in Acámbaro, Guanajuato (center)suffered an attack with explosives and, in Coyomeapan, Puebla (center), voting was suspended due to the emergence of an armed group.
The organization also recorded three murders of election winners.
On June 3, Yonis Baños, winner of the municipal presidency of Santo Domingo Armenta, Oaxaca, by the PRI, and on June 9 that of Mario Lázaro Mendoza, elected councilor of Morena in Jacona, Michoacán.
The most recent murder was on June 17, that of Salvador Villalba, a member of a local party in Copala, Guerrero, who had won the municipal presidency.
The report is released after on Tuesday the Government of Mexico recognized only the murder of 12 candidates, which is why it denied that they were the most violent elections in the country’s history.
Mexico had the largest election in its history on June 2, when 98 million Mexicans were called to renew more than 20,000 positions, including the presidency, which the ruling party Claudia Sheinbaum won.
*With information from EFE.
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