The most recent report from the Ministry of Security of the Mexico stateindicates that they are valid as of the date 33 protection measures for popular election candidates, of the thousand 579, who will take part on June 2, the date on which in this federal entity they will hold midterm electionsthat is, along with the votes to elect the person who remains president of the republic, as well as those who make up the next Senate and the federal Chamber of Deputies.
It is stated that this last universe of political contenders will be given the possibility of accessing technology so that they have direct contact with the state police during the upcoming electoral process.
“Actions are maintained before, during and after. Previously, the information is collected and systematized to determine the targeted problem and establish lines of communication with the members for the traceability of the deployment and delivery of the documentation,” specifies the Mexican police corporation.
What other security measures will be taken in the 2024 elections in Edomex?
The Secretary of the SSEM, Andrés Andrade Téllez, explained that during the electoral process next June, there will be patrols through the boxes, based on the risk map generated “with the methodology based on intelligence, as well as preventive monitoring and follow-up and reaction through the 20 thousand cameras of the video surveillance system of the C5 of Toluca and Ecatepec.”
In the south and east of Mexico there are some protection measures.
Agustín Barrera Soriano, state leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), reported that the candidates for municipal presidents of Ocuilan and Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, have a protection measure.
Juan Zepeda Hernández, state leader of Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), stated that the candidate for mayor of Amanalco de Becerra, Arturo Lara de la Cruz, also received, along with his family, a protective measure.
And it will be remembered that last month, this politician’s home was shot at and organized crime left him a message presuming that he was no good as municipal president of Amanalco.
Who has also received a protection measure from the Executive Secretariat of the National Electoral Institute (INE), is the candidate for federal deputy representing District 10 of Ecatepec, Fernando Vilchis Contreras.
This politician maintained that, recentlyand has received threats from criminal groupsbecause when he was municipal president of Ecatepec, the police under his charge captured at least 60 subjects related to high-impact crimes, such as homicide, extortion, drug trafficking and fuel smuggling.
Added Vilchis Contreras, municipal president with a license, who already continues to tour the neighborhoods that make up his District 10 at ground level, with the support of elements of the National Guard (GN).
Finally, Joaquín Rubio Sánchez, Member of the INE in this federal entity, reported that a woman candidate for senator and another politician for Federal District 33 also have protection during their proselytizing acts.
