{"id":264442,"date":"2024-05-20T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=264442"},"modified":"2024-05-20T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:19:05","slug":"mexico-opposition-supporters-mass-in-capital-as-election-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=264442","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Opposition supporters mass in capital as election nears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2024\/05\/20\/image-190119-1716176129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"263\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, May 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez massed in Mexico City on Sunday, two weeks before elections expected to produce the country&#8217;s first woman president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters face a choice on June 2 between &#8220;oppression or freedom,&#8221; Galvez said in front of the national palace where outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lives and works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fighting a battle to defend three fundamental values: life, truth and liberty,&#8221; the 61-year-old businesswoman and senator told the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local authorities, an estimated 95,000 people joined the rally, turning Mexico City&#8217;s main square into a sea of pink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the big show of support, Galvez is lagging well behind the ruling party candidate, former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, in public opinion surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an average of polls compiled by the firm Oraculus, Sheinbaum has 56 percent of voter support, while Galvez is in second place with 34 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third candidate, Jorge Alvarez Maynez of the Citizens&#8217; Movement party, has 10 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lopez Obrador&#8217;s opponents accuse him of an authoritarian tilt and of seeking to undermine Mexico&#8217;s democratic institutions with attempts to reform the justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the proposals is for Supreme Court judges to be chosen by popular vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We all need to go out and vote&#8230; because if not we are really in serious danger,&#8221; said Adolfo Borduin, 62, who sees the reform plan as an effort by the ruling party to consolidate its power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Valdovinos, another Galvez supporter, said it was time for a change in the political direction of the Latin American nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want the best for Mexico. I want a free Mexico &#8212; a Mexico without dictatorship, a Mexico that doesn&#8217;t repress its people,&#8221; she said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, May 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez massed in Mexico City on Sunday, two weeks before elections expected to produce the country&#8217;s first woman president. Voters face a choice on June 2 between &#8220;oppression or freedom,&#8221; Galvez said in front of the national palace where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":264445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264450,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264442\/revisions\/264450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}