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Mexico’s ruling party on Saturday named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City. For the moment, former capital police chief Omar García Harfuch — who won polls on the city race but was knocked out by a gender quota requiring a female candidate — told local media he had no plans to leave the party. “We will always respect the gender quotas and the decision of our party,” García Harfuch wrote in his social media accounts. ....
Mexico’s immensely powerful ruling party may face its biggest test yet Friday, as it announces its candidates for the 2024 gubernatorial elections. Rather, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has to prove it can really hold together and prevent the desertion of candidates who weren't picked — or whether, with the end of term for its charismatic founder, the ideologically diverse party could start falling apart. Since López Obrador founded his Morena party in 2014, it has largely served to promote him, with little ideological consistency and a leading elite made up of disparate elements, in many cases recruited from other parties or resuscitated despite past scandals. ....
The police and city officials have turned a blind eye to misconduct, current and former police officials say leaving victims of abuse, many of them poor, with little recourse. ....