© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Governor of Nuevo Leon state Samuel Garcia poses for an image with college students as he arrives at an occasion of faculty tools supply on the Prepa Tec highschool, in Monterrey, Mexico April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photograph
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Samuel Garcia, one of many two primary opposition hopefuls competing in Mexico’s 2024 presidential election, has withdrawn from the competition to return to his submit as governor of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, his social gathering stated on Saturday.
“I have decided to not participate in the electoral race for President of the Republic,” the 35-year-old Garcia stated in a press release from the Nuevo Leon authorities made public by his center-left Residents’ Motion (MC) social gathering.
Six weeks in the past, Garcia stated he would stand down as governor to hunt the candidacy of MC, which has remained other than the primary right-left opposition alliance bidding to oust the ruling Nationwide Regeneration Motion (MORENA) within the June 2024 vote.
Garcia then grew to become embroiled in a dispute about who would change him in Nuevo Leon, the place his political opponents management the state legislature, which votes within the interim governor.
Garcia wished an MC ally to take the helm however the opposition-controlled legislature this week voted in former state prosecutor Luis Enrique Orozco as alternative governor. Garcia’s u-turn got here simply as Orozco was because of assume energy.
Latest opinion polls have given Garcia round 10% help within the presidential race, placing him behind Xochitl Galvez, candidate of the primary opposition alliance.
Each lag far behind the front-runner, former Mexico Metropolis Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate of the leftist MORENA.
MC will decide within the coming days the best way to transfer ahead with its choice course of, social gathering chief Dante Delgado stated.
The social gathering is anticipated to announce its candidate on Jan. 20.
