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(EFE).- The senator of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) Xóchitl Gálvez announced on Tuesday that she will seek to be the presidential candidate of the opposition coalition Va por México, a race in which she will try to profit from her confrontations with President Andrés Manuel López Workshop.

That, added to her extensive political experience and her public acceptance, make her one of the main candidates for the opposition, whose internal process will begin on July 4 and end on September 3, three days before that of the ruling National Regeneration Movement. (Brunette).

Gálvez has been the opponent who has faced López Obrador most frontally, which has given him a visibility that he will now try to use in his favor.

The most notorious clash occurred on June 12, when López Obrador ignored her when going to participate in one of his daily press conferences.

The most notorious clash occurred on June 12, when López Obrador ignored her when going to participate in one of his daily press conferences.

A judge had granted him the right to reply after the president put some erroneous statements in his mouth, but they left him at the gates of the National Palace.

“I understood a powerful message: that the door of the National Palace only opens from the inside out. Therefore, we are going to open that door for millions of Mexican men and women. From here I tell you: I am going to be the next president of Mexico. Yes you go, I go,” he said in a video on Tuesday on his Twitter account.

This episode has been exploited since then to position itself as one of the main threats from the opposition to the hegemony of Morena in the presidential elections of June 2024.

Gálvez (Hidalgo, 1963) studied computer engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), specialized in robotics or artificial intelligence and worked in technology companies.

In 1999, the Davos Economic Forum recognized her as one of the 100 global leaders of the future, the first Mexican woman to do so.

Barely a year later, he jumped into politics at the hands of the recently elected President Vicente Fox (2000-2006) as head of the now extinct National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples.

Since then he has not separated from political life, the PAN or the causes of the native peoples, giving a social vision to his public work that has continued during this legislature, presiding over the Senate committee on indigenous affairs.

Before that, in 2010, she unsuccessfully tried to win the governorship of Hidalgo, and in 2015 she became head of the Miguel Hidalgo delegation, the internal demarcation of Mexico City.

Despite the fact that for a good part of her career she has stood out as a rather moderate politician within a party stained by issues such as the “war against drug trafficking” declared by former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), which led to levels of violence unprecedented, it has been during this last stage in the Senate when Gálvez has unleashed his most seasoned side.

“I know that this government does not like to talk about things that make it uncomfortable, or rather it does not like to be questioned, that transparency and accountability are demanded of it”

The first of his famous occurrences happened on March 29, 2022, when he brought to the Senate a replica made with Lego pieces of what is known as the “Grey House”, the disputed property of a Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) contractor in which José Ramón López, son of López Obrador, lived in Houston, United States.

“I know that this government does not like to talk about things that make it uncomfortable, or rather it does not like to be questioned, that transparency and accountability be demanded of it. They have not taken governing seriously. game, so I bring you a game to see if you like it,” he said then.

Later, in December of last year, he went to the Upper House disguised as a dinosaur to protest against the controversial electoral reform proposed by the president, carrying a sign that read “Jurassic Plan” and interrupting the session for several minutes.

The last of his bizarre protests was last April, when he chained himself to the rostrum of the alternate seat of the Senate, Xicoténcatl, where Morena legislators were preparing to meet overnight, to demand the appointment of the commissioners of the National Institute of Transparency. , Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai).

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