(30 May 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico - 29 May 2024
1. Various of a human-size mascot of Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greeting supporters
2. Sheinbaum speaking during campaign closer
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican presidential candidate:
"Attention to the causes; strengthening of the national guard, intelligence and investigation, and coordination will lead the security strategy."
4. Sheinbaum mascot greeting supporters UPSOUND supporters (Spanish) "President, President"
5. Various of group of supporters chanting
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican presidential candidate:
"We will maintain the necessary division between economic and political power. We will not submit to any economic or foreign power, no matter how powerful it may be."
7. Supporters chanting
8. Various of supporter waving Sheinbaum doll
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican presidential candidate:
"We are the twelfth largest economy in the world and the main trading partner of the United States. Economic growth exceeds all predictions. The peso has been one of the most appreciated currencies against the dollar. We are one of the countries with the lowest unemployment rate."
10. Supporters cheering
11. Various of supporters in Mexico City's main square
STORYLINE:
Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum held her final rally late on Wednesday in Mexico City's vast, colonial-era central square.
Sheinbaum, the candidate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Morena party, delivered a strongly nationalistic speech to a large crowd.
"We will maintain the necessary division between economic and political power. We will not submit to any economic or foreign power, no matter how powerful it may be," she said.
On the issue of violence, Sheinbaum vowed to continue López Obrador's policy of offering apprenticeships to encourage youths not to join drug cartels.
"Attention to the causes, strengthening of the national guard, intelligence and investigation and coordination will lead the security strategy," she said.
While López Obrador's has increased the country's minimum wage and increased government benefit programmes, he has been unable to significantly reduce the historically high homicide rate, which currently runs at more than 30,000 killings per year nationwide.
Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez started her last campaign rallies early Wednesday on the outskirts of Mexico City, and she focused her ire on López Obrador's "hugs not bullets" policy of not confronting the drug cartels.
The third candidate is little-known Jorge Álvarez Máynez, a former federal congressman from the Citizen Movement party. He has focused on trying to scoop up the young vote, but has not gotten much traction.
Former Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum leads the race and has promised to continue absolutely all of López Obrador’s policies.
Mexicans will vote Sunday in an election weighing gender, democracy and populism, as they chart the country’s path forward in voting shadowed by cartel violence.
With two women leading the contest, Mexico is likely to elect its first female president.
More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are also up for grabs, according to the National Electoral Institute.
AP video shot by: Fernanda Pesce
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