Former Soccer Star-Turned-Mayor Goes on Hunger Strike Over Impeachment Reuters
go to original December 18, 2016

Cuernavaca’s Mayor Cuauhtemoc Blanco starts a hunger strike to protest his impeachment. (Tony Rivera/EPA)

Update: Ex-Soccer Star, Now Mayor, Ends Hunger Strike in Mexico (Associated Press)

The former Mexico forward Cuauhtémoc Blanco declared a hunger strike on Saturday, to protest an impeachment process that seeks to remove him as mayor of the city of Cuernavaca, a state capital near Mexico City.

The proposal to unseat Blanco, who became mayor of Cuernavaca in December, was approved on Thursday by the Morelos state legislature and was sent to state supreme court judges who are expected to issue a ruling in early January.

Since the 43-year-old took over the colonial city of 350,000, opponents have questioned his attendance record at city hall meetings and his political experience, saying advisers make decisions on his behalf.

“He might be a good man but he is not qualified to rule,” said constitutional lawyer Raul Carranca, who filed the impeachment petition before the state’s legislature.

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