With registration now closed, the Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPCJ) has confirmed that five candidates will compete in the July 1 gubernatorial election.
The contenders are: Fernando Guzman Perez, 56, of the National Action Party (PAN); Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval Diaz, 38, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); Fernando Garza Martinez, 61, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD); Enrique Alfaro Ramirez, 38, of the Citizens’ Movement; and finally Maria de los Angeles Martinez, 48, of the New Alliance Party (PANAL).
The emergence of the latter candidate was the biggest surprise. Martinez, a local teacher, registered just minutes before the expiration of the March 15 deadline. She hopes to win around five percent of the vote on behalf of the PANAL, which was founded in 2006. More realistically, political analysts say, she will win one or two percent of the vote.
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