Xóchitl Gálvez assures that Mexico still has “hunger and thirst for justice”

The presidential candidate of the opposition Frente Amplio for Mexico, Xochitl Galvezstated this Sunday, during her work report as senator, that the country still has “hunger and thirst for justice”, emulating the speech of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, assassinated in 1994.

“Almost 30 years ago, in this place, Colosio saw a Mexico with hunger and thirst for justice, 30 years ago. Today that is still true, millions of Mexicans continue to hunger and thirst for justice,” he said at an event held at the Monument to the Revolution, in Mexico City.

In one of her first massive events as an official candidate in the Mexican capital, the senator met with hundreds of supporters who gathered at the site where 30 years ago Colosio, candidate for president for the then ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), He spoke about the hunger and thirst for justice that Mexico had.

Gálvez also referred to the migrants, who he said, are also hungry and thirsty for justice because they are forced to leave their lands to go to another country. “because they didn’t find the opportunities here.”

He also mentioned the peasants, who he said, have been “abandoned to his fate” due to the loss of their crops.

The candidate pointed out that Mexico still has various health and safety needs; and she guaranteed that, if she becomes president, social programs will be maintained and she will seek to restore Popular Insurance, which served people without social security and which disappeared during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Likewise, he requested that resources be granted for the search for missing people and for the identification of human remains.

He stressed that Mexicans “We live in fear of violence and insecurity” and criticized López Obrador’s policy of “hugs and not bullets.”

“In security I have spoken of head, heart and character”he highlighted and said that the strategy must consider an international agreement to combat organized crime, stand on the side of the victims, find justice and apply the law “with a firm hand.”

Likewise, she recalled that she defends women’s rights by demanding an end to violence and justice for them.

“I have called to break the old patriarchal pact to build together, men and women, a new pact, a pact of love, a pact of respect and a pact of walking together”he emphasized.

Finally, he called for unity to face the problems because, he stated, “we all suffer the same.”

“We cannot resign ourselves to living like this, we deserve a better country, let us aspire to a better Mexico. We are and come from the culture of effort, we can achieve it, we are going to achieve it.”he insisted.

Although the Frente Amplio por México announced Gálvez as its future candidate on September 3 and the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) announced Claudia Sheinbaum on September 6, the parties were ahead of the official times of the National Electoral Institute (INE), which establishes that the pre-campaigns or internal contests begin in November.