Why are there elections in Tamaulipas and what position will be chosen?

“Red flags” were ruled out for the extraordinary elections. (Darkroom)

This Sunday, February 19, Tamaulipas tore off the extraordinary election to choose the official who will occupy the seat in the Chamber of Senators that was left empty after the death of Faustino Lopez.

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Before his death, Faustino López Vargas had been in the Upper House since January 2022 for National Regeneration Movement (Brunette) as substitute legislator of the now Governor of Tamaulipas, Americo Villarreal. According to the Senate portal, the great closeness that the Tamaulipas man maintained with President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) influenced to become one of the founders of Morena, although he also stood out during the creation of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD).

However, mourning reached Morena and the Chamber in October 2022 after Ricardo Monreal, president of the Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Senators, reported that Faustino and his wife Pilar Hernández had lost their lives in a car crash.

Due to a sore throat of the president of the Senate Commission, discussion of Plan B was postponed for a week

The expected discussion for the approval or elimination of one of the Plan B items will take place next week

“Irreparable loss that mourns us in the Senate. (…) My love and solidarity with his family, children, and loved ones,” his Zacatecan counterpart wrote via Twitter, thus confirming the unfortunate death of the legislator.

Faustino López served as substitute legislator for Américo Villarreal. (Twitter/FaustinoLopezV)

Given the death of López Vargas, the Senator of the Republic approved the call for the extraordinary election on November 30, 2022. In this way, the parliamentary groups continued to choose their respective candidates, who campaigned on December 28, 2022 to February 15, 2023.

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So, more than 2 million 700 thousand people will go to the electoral polls, from 08:00 to 18:00 hours, to vote for one of three options to occupy the representation of Tamaulipas in the Senate.

The party to win in these elections is once again National Regeneration, which presented as a candidate for Jose Ramon Gomez Lealformer Welfare delegate, and the daughter of the deceased Faustino López, Indira Paola López Carreto.

For its part, the opposition coalition Goes through Mexico (PAN-PRI-PRD) launched the blue and white, Imelda Sanmiguel Sanchezwhile his substitute will be the PRI Georgina Barrios González. It should be noted that, before the definition, it transpired that the candidacy could be occupied by former governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.

Meanwhile, the Green party environmentalist (PVEM) starred in the surprise of the elections by deciding to participate in the extraordinary elections outside the alliance that he maintains with Morena and the Labor Party (PT). That way, Manuel Munoz Cano He was chosen to represent the toucan bench, with José Ricardo Espinosa Velázquez as his substitute.