Mascota (Eastern Mexico) mayoral candidate Jaime Vera, murdered with bullets This Thursday in the municipality of Zapopan in the state of Jalisco, the security cabinet coordinator of the party, Ricardo Sánchez, reported the situation. Reports stated that this candidate corresponds to the official candidate in the Mexican town, emerging from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), which is running in alliance with the ruling National Renewal Movement (Morena) and the Workers’ Party (PT). According to Sánchez.
“According to the initial versions, the deceased was to be registered to compete in the electoral process for the Green Party in that municipality, so this information will be made public based on the results of the investigations carried out by the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office,” he stated on his social networks as they progress.
The murder took place between Moctezuma and Manuel J. Clouthier streets in the Puerta del Sol district of the Jalisco municipality of Zapopan. A man approached the Mexican politician and shot him multiple times before fleeing on foot.. The candidate was lying on the asphalt next to his pickup truck.
While the Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Jalisco also published on the X account that it was investigating the incident, Sánchez stated that the authorities also contacted the president of PVEM to provide the necessary support. “The State Attorney’s Office is conducting an investigation to clarify the events in which a man lost his life at the intersection of Avenida Manuel J. Clouthier and Avenida Moctezuma in Zapopan,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The killing of the politician occurred a day after Marko Cortés, head of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), condemned the attack. crisis of violence and insecurity Mexico’s experience puts the June 2 election process at risk and therefore requires the current government’s immediate attention.
Meanwhile, Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling coalition’s ‘Let’s Keep Making History’ presidential candidate, assured that the next elections on the same Wednesday, the largest in its history for Mexico, will be “clean and peaceful” with a large turnout. Voting at the ballot box on election day. “There will be peaceful, clean elections with the great participation of the Mexican people,” the former mayor of the Government of Mexico City said during the XII Plenary Session of the ruling Morena’s Parliamentary Group in the Senate.