Now he rides his bike through the streets mexico citybut he may soon have to get into the presidential car. Xochitl Galvez is considered a real surprise of the election campaign Mexican elections June 2 next year when voters will be called renew parliament and elect a new one (or new) the president countries.
There Galvez’s candidacy is of increasing concern to incumbent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (renamed “AMLO”), a left-wing populist who has been well liked by Mexicans so far, but who cannot run again due to the country’s constitution, which places a one-term limit on the office.
Until now, many have thought that it would have been enough for Obrador to name his preferred candidate in order to effectively continue to maintain control of the state. However, Galvez is gaining more and more popularity, also due to her personal history, which makes her a real icon of the feminist world.
She was born in 1963 Tepatek in an indigenous family and in very modest conditions, with alcoholic father and inclined to violence. This situation prompted her from childhood to choose the study of mathematics as a revenge, not stopping at economic difficulties. To pay for education he was selling sweets on the street and after graduating from the Faculty of Computer Science inNational Autonomous University, founded his own company in the technology sector in the 1990s. His entrepreneurial success deserved her place among “100 World Leaders of the Future” Davos Forum in 1999.
Galvez’s past is also noted attempted rape at 17 when he managed to put his attacker to flight with a soldering iron. “Since then, I have never been afraid of anyone,” he later recalled. An episode of attempted sexual harassment is unfortunately not uncommon in the context of Mexico, where the level of violence against women is very high.
Galvez’s determination met with politics in 2000when the former president Vicente Fox appointed her head of the Office for the Development of Indigenous Peoples. Since then, he began his activities, becoming in 2015, the mayor of the municipality of Mexico City, Miguel Hidalgo. and then entering Parliament in 2018 as an independent member of the National Action Party, a centre-right political formation.
Over the past few years, his popularity has grown more and more thanks to decisions sometimes accused of populism, such as taking pictures of himself while biking around the city or appearing in the House of Representatives under the guise of a tyrannosaurus rex to protest reform in his say, “Jurassic period” wanted by Obrador. And it’s just the outgoing president will be increasingly concerned about Gálvez’s rise to power which can lead to the loss of dolphins, removing him from power. Polls consider this scenario far from unlikely.
And so Obrador went on the attack, so much so that he decided publicize the names of clients of your opponent’s companies in an attempt to create doubt that he is “against the system”. Galvez’s reaction was not long in coming: “As Shakira says, “Women don’t cry – they bill.” I have a permanent business that has been running for 31 years.”
It is no coincidence that Shakira, who over the past year has become very beloved by feminists for denouncing the betrayal suffered by her ex-husband Gerard Pique in one of her hits. Has the time come for the redemption of women in Mexican politics as well? Hips don’t lie; we will see polls.
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