Businessman Arturo Gonzalez Cruz has declared victory in Tijuana’s mayoral election, edging out Julian Leyzaola, a controversial ex-soldier and police chief whose candidacy made headlines across Mexico.
Businessman Arturo Gonzalez Cruz has declared victory in Tijuana’s mayoral election, edging out Julian Leyzaola,With 89% of ballots counted in Sunday’s vote, Gonzalez was ahead with 149,164 votes compared with Leyzaola’s 121,255, according to Baja California’sLeyzaola campaign officials said they planned to wait until all of the votes were counted before making a statement about the election.
As police chief of Tijuana from 2008-10 and later of Juarez, Leyzaola earned praise for purging police of corrupt officers, taking on the city’s powerful drug cartels, and lowering crime, but he also earned the ire of human rights advocates who accused him of torture and other abuses. Leyzaola decided to run for mayor of Tijuana after an assassination attempt in Juarez in 2015 left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Leyzaola made the case that he was uniquely qualified to tackle Tijuana’s most pressing problem: A spiraling homicide crisis that hasHe frequently criticized Gonzalez, the onetime president of Tijuana’s golf club, for not being tough enough to take on drug gangs. “The first threat he receives, he’ll flee to San Diego,” Leyzaola often said.
But Leyzaola, who ran with the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, could not compete with Gonzalez and his large coalition of parties led by Morena, a new leftist party that has swept to national dominance over the last few years thanks to the popularity of its founder, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.in last year’s July 1 presidential election and Morena picked up significant victories in congressional and gubernatorial races.
Morena candidate Jaime Bonilla declared victory in the Baja California governor’s race Sunday night, and Morena candidates appear to have prevailed in the four other municipal elections held in Baja California on Sunday.
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