MX Elections 2016: Pushers, Perverts and Thieves Dominate Campaign News Mexico News Daily
go to original May 24, 2016

The Yunes cousins Héctor, left, and Miguel Ángel. One is allegedly corrupt, the other a pervert. (Especial)

It’s a war out there and it’s a dirty one: welcome to the 2016 election campaigns.

In four of the 11 states that will hold elections in two weeks the campaigns have dispensed with promoting platforms and proposals, opting instead for a “dirty war” of accusations, personal attacks and the disclosure of information designed to tarnish candidates’ reputations.

The Gulf states of Veracruz and Tamaulipas have been the most hostile battlegrounds so far. In both, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has ruled for years on end, and both have suffered from the violence caused by drug trafficking and corruption.

In the race for governor of Veracruz two cousins are head-to-head contenders: Miguel Ángel Yunes represents a left-right alliance between the National Action and Democratic Revolution parties, PAN and PRD, respectively. His cousin, Héctor Yunes, is the candidate of the ruling party, PRI.

The most recent series of attacks between the two has included accusations of pedophilia against Miguel Ángel, allegedly complicit in a child pornography network. Héctor Yunes used a public event to accuse his cousin of being “a pervert” and “sexual deviant” and warned those in attendance to “keep [their] children safe.”

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