As indicated by the majority of the polls, the candidate of the Morena, PVEM and PT coalition, Oscar Eduardo Ramirez Aguilarwon the governorship of Chiapas with a wide advantage over her political rivals: Olga Luz Espinosa Morales (PRI, PAN and PRD) and Karla Irasema Muñoz Balanzár (Citizen Movement).
Óscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar will take office as governor of Chiapas from next December 8, 2024 and he will remain in office until December 7, 2030, but to do so he must wait for the Institute of Elections and Citizen Participation (IEPC) to resolve the lawsuits of disagreement that may be presented by the opposition parties: only then will he be able to declare the validity of the result obtained this June 2 at the polls.
In order to compete in the elections for the governorship of Chiapas, Oscar Eduardo Ramirez Aguilar He requested leave from the Senate of the Republic and separated from his position on February 1.
The next governor of Chiapas He has a degree in Law from the Realistic University of Mexico and among the public positions he has held is a seat in the Senate, a federal deputy, a local deputy; He was also head of the General Secretariat of the Government of Chiapas and municipal president of Comitán. Although he ran as a coalition, he is a member of Brunette.
His political past is closely linked to the former governor and former presidential candidate. Manuel Velasco Coello, Well, it was during his administration when he was in charge of the General Secretariat of the Government (2013-2015), before jumping to the Local Congress (2015-2018) to serve as its main operator among the deputies of the other benches.
Already as senator (2018-2024), the next governor of Chiapas managed to occupy the presidency of the Upper House (2020-2021)being during his administration when two of the most controversial and controversial moments of the six-year term occurred: the ‘blockades’ for the appointment of INAI commissioners and magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation.
Regarding his academic life, he has a postgraduate degree in Political Marketing from the Complutense University of Madrid and has a master’s degree in Constitutional Law and Amparo granted to him by the Manuel José de Rojas Institute of Higher Studies.
At 46 years old, the new governor of Chiapas also boasts in his resume that he teaches classes at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is the author of the book The Participation of the People and the Revocation of Mandate.
Since the pre-campaign period began (January 22), the candidate of Brunette and his allies did not lose the advantage he maintained with his opponents and, depending on the polls and the period in which they were taken, he achieved an advantage of up to 50 percentage points.
With this victory, Morena and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) manage to extend their hegemony in the state for three six-year terms, remembering that the alliance that today nominated (with the support of the PT) Óscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, was the same one that led to victory to the current president, Rutilio Escandón; while his predecessor, Manuel Velasco Coellowon the elections in 2012 as a PVEM candidate.
While waiting for the results to be made official in each of the municipalities that voted to elect who will be their new mayor, the dumbbell Morena and PVEM It intends to increase its presence in Chiapas and surpass the 64 mayors it maintained in power in 2021 and 2024.
They also hope to overcome the 27 of the 40 seats that they occupied in the Local Congress (17 Morena and 10 PVEM), which allowed them ample room to maneuver and approve reforms related to the so-called Fourth Transformation.
