Fredy Vázquez Palacios protested before the plenary session of the Congress of Guerrero as mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, municipality of Tierra Caliente where on October 5 23 people were murdered, including Mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda.
Interviewed after his inauguration, Vázquez Palacios said that there are security conditions in San Miguel Totolapan in San Miguel Totolapan itself. “That’s why we took on this important challenge,” he said.
Vázquez Palacios served as secretary general of the city council.
On insecurity, he mentioned that he will only take precautions and that he will ask Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda for security measures to serve as mayor.
“We are not afraid, we will only take precaution,” he said.
After the armed attack on the town hall and two private homes in San Miguel Totolapan, which left 23 people killed, the municipality was left without a municipal president.
See also: Massacre in San Miguel Totolapan: 20 people killed in Guerrero, including the mayor
After the murder of the mayor and that his substitute did not want to assume the position, this morning the local Congress received the list of three proposals to elect the new mayor.
The shortlist, sent by the governor, was made up of María Elena Barragán Uriostegui, attorney general and currently in charge of the office of the presidency; Fredy Vázquez Palacios, general secretary of the city council, and Julio César Colima Gómez, president of the Municipal Committee of the PRD.
In the session of November 15, Congress approved the resignation of José Alberto Nava Palacios, alternate mayor of San Miguel Totolapan.
In his resignation letter, Nava Palacios explained his reasons and said that for “physical and mental health” he would not assume the position of mayor of San Miguel Totolapan.
Finally, in a second session, it was that the deputies took protest as mayor to Vázquez Palacios.
This text was originally published on the site Poppy Journalism.
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