Breathe
By Sandra Romandía
The second debate for the presidency of Mexico City became a scenario of confrontations, where the candidates, far from presenting clear proposals with budget details -for example- and concrete solutions, engaged in a struggle to show who was lying more, who was attacking more fiercely and who had more evidence to back up their accusations. An opposition candidate more comfortable than in the first debate, a candidate of the official party who attacked more than last time, probably a symptom of nervousness due to the closeness of the polls. A third party candidate more insistent in his proposals. Probably a more solid and interesting debate than the first one, in which proposals prevailed without specific details on what budget or strategy could be used to turn them into reality.
Santiago Taboada, representative of the PRI, PAN and PRD parties, insisted on directly attacking Clara Brugada, of the MORENA-PT-Green party, mentioning acts of corruption, inefficiency in her administration and her relationship with René Bejarano whom she would benefit with contracts in Iztapalapa, something that the former mayor could have taken more advantage of since she at no time could deny that he is still her operator. Brugada made a mistake at the beginning when she said that the debate would present "two models of how to govern", alluding that her opponent's model was also correct, but then she decided to point out concrete cases against the PAN candidate about misappropriations and his relationship with the "Real Estate Cartel". Taboada took advantage of this debate to strongly criticize the current Morena administration in Mexico City, questioning security, water supply and other key issues that, according to him, had been neglected for years.
