2024-04-29 14:16:23
In the midst of a national context of violence, attacks between the presidential candidates are expected to intensify for the second debate, since one of the issues to be discussed will be insecurity.
For Gustavo Lopez Montielan expert from The New School for Social Research in New York, the issue will be central due to how organized crime has directly impacted candidates for different positions. popular choice, mainly to those seeking local positions.
According to the organization Electoral LaboratoryAs of April 19, 57 people related to the electoral process have been murdered, of which 30 are candidates for office. some charge.
Even during a tour of Motozintla, ChiapasLast Sunday, a group of hooded men intercepted the passage of the caravan in which the Morena candidate for the Presidency was traveling, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
The doctor in Political Science considered that these issues will come to light in the debate and may be what draws the most attention although, he acknowledged, regarding electoral preferences, the meeting between the candidates has little chance of moving the voting stage.
“It is a moment of great confrontation, the candidates and the candidate have already established themselves, they are about to enter the last month of the campaign and as I expected, on the one hand the attacks have been intensifying, they are more consistent and stronger,” he indicated.
He added that the second debate comes at a time of “a lot of tension and there will be issues such as security, it is a very critical moment of the campaign and decisive because it will consolidate the preferences of the electorate.”
Another scenario, he noted, is that citizens who do not have a voting preference decide their vote towards the last part of the campaign, although it will be a low percentage.
“Some group of voters could change their preferences based on what they see in the debate, but it will be very small,” he indicated.
THE FORMAT
The debate between Claudia Sheinbaum, from Morena, PT and PVEM; Xóchitl Gálvez, from the PRI, PAN and PRD, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadanowill take place at 8:00 p.m. next Sunday, at the Churubusco Studios.
It is expected to last 1:53 minutes and the candidates, according to the schedule, will exchange opinions on economic growth, employment and inflation; infrastructure and development, poverty and inequality, as well as climate change.
For this meeting, the INE He recorded 400 citizens in public squares in the country who asked questions to the candidates, of which a purging process was carried out and 186 questions remained, which were submitted to a draw.
After the draw, they were handed over to the moderators Adriana Perez Canedo and Alexander Cacho 75 questions, of which they will choose the eight that will be broadcast on a giant screen on the debate set and must be answered by the candidates.
PRODUCTION
Regarding design, pre-production, production, transmission, recording and post-production, they will be in charge of the companies. Full Circle Media y MVS Net; These companies were in charge of that same work in the first debate, because an open contract was signed for up to 23 million pesos.
Currently, the Executive Directorate of administration analyzes possible sanctions to the consortium for failures in the timing system, presented in the first debate, in addition to complaints from the representations of candidates regarding lighting, camera shots, among other technical issues.
For logistics, the company Turismo y Conventions SA de CV will be in charge of placing the metal detectors and x-ray machines, as well as metal fences, tents, tables, chairs, internet, computers and other necessary accessories, with a cost of 11 million pesos for this service in the three debates.
Security will be in charge of the National Guard, as well as the Mexico City Police, which will be in charge of installing several filters in the vicinity of the Churubusco Studios.
The debate set was installed in the forum Matilde Landeta of the Churubusco Studios, a place that has hosted dozens of productions of television programs and films, for which Frederick Neumaier, director of the Churubusco Studios, during a media tour of the place, pointed out that the quality of the production is guaranteed.
The three presidential candidates will be able to bring up to 40 guests who will be placed in some of the rooms of the property, such as the called Luis Buñuel; In addition, counselors may bring up to eight guests.
In the first debate there was a controversy because the candidate people outside the production on the set of the second meeting.
However, given the conditions and breadth of the Churubusco Studies forum, there is a possibility that the 11 councilors of the Churubusco Studies INE be present inside the forum in a place where they do not have contact with the candidates, but that was still being negotiated between parties and councilors until the closing of this edition.
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2024-04-29 14:16:23