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Political Battle in Acapulco: Salgado Family Tries to Maintain Power

A political struggle for power is intensifying in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Senator Félix Salgado, despite President Sheinbaum's nepotism ban, is trying to strengthen his position in Acapulco through a relative, causing national discontent. His daughter, the current governor, is also involved in this fight to maintain the family's influence.


Political Battle in Acapulco: Salgado Family Tries to Maintain Power

Behind this agreement would be an attempt by Félix Salgado to lower his structure from the state to the local level, especially in Acapulco, the same city he already governed between 2005 and 2008. In this sense, in the 'Morena' party, they are warning about the proselytizing work already carried out by the head of the State Secretariat of Finance and Administration, Ricardo Salinas Méndez, who is the right-hand man of the Salgado family. Sources in the entity told LPO that in recent weeks, Salinas Méndez has begun to position himself in Acapulco, the most important city in the entity and the one with the greatest influence. This, some sectors consider, would clash with the precedents left by the government of Félix Salgado in Acapulco, which was marked by shootouts between organized crime and public beheadings. In this way, there could be a change in the governorship, but his family would maintain important quotas of power. Sheinbaum's reprimand put the Mayor on alert and now he already speaks of the end of open doors in Morena. However, this strategy is not guaranteed and should count on the approval of the National Palace, where the resistance generated by Félix Salgado against Claudia Sheinbaum's own anti-nepotism initiative did not go down well. The future of Morena senator Félix Salgado is uncertain. In any case, some sectors of the 'guinda' party do not rule out that it could be Félix Salgado himself who will compete for the bay and return to the entity where he forged much of his local political career. The anti-nepotism principles upheld by President Claudia Sheinbaum ended his dream of governing Guerrero after his daughter and current governor, Evelyn Salgado. This Monday, the head of state anticipated that she will have an important role in the definition of candidacies by having ruled out an eventual electoral adventure for Saúl Monreal to succeed his brother as governor of Zacatecas. Furthermore, sources from the national government assured LPO that the head of state maintains as one of her main objectives to recover the historic city to revitalize it as a source of national tourism and the growth pole of the state. In any case, the fight against nepotism that the head of state put on the table ended his plans since he cannot be a candidate to govern. In the 4T, they remember that he more than once threatened to try it through another party, but this week he reiterated that he will comply with the federal guidelines after Sheinbaum ruled out, for the same reason, a candidacy for Saúl Monreal in Zacatecas. "I am not a bone-setter," he stated on his social networks. Tension: Esquivel takes advantage of the crisis of Jesús Ramírez and proposes himself as his replacement in the Presidency. This change, they say in the 4T, could be due to a withdrawal at the state level due to the pressures exerted by the National Palace, which demand alternation and changes in the Executive Power. However, he managed to maintain his power and influence with the help of his daughter, Evelyn Salgado. However, local sources have advanced to LPO that 'El Toro' is determined to maintain quotas of power in the federative entity and that he would seek to land in Acapulco, which generates discomfort in the national leadership and in the National Palace. The senator still maintains the annoyance that his loss of candidacy in 2021 caused him.

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