Enrique Alfaro of the Citizens Movement trails Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the polls with a week to go before the election.
(Left) Enrique Alfaro of the Citizens Movement is joined at a campaign stop by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard. Alfaro, the former mayor of Tlajomulco, is running second behind Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) but claims the gap is narrowing despite polls putting him more than ten points adrift.
Ebrard, who lost a primary to be the left-wing presidential contender, has decided to back Alfaro rather than the official Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate. Alfaro split from the Jalisco PRD after falling out with local party bosses.
(Right) Aristoteles Sandoval leads a campaign rally in the southern Jalisco town of Quitupan this week. The PRI candidate made a swing though 20 southern municipalities in a bid to shore up his vote in the provinces.
Sandoval enjoys a commanding lead over his closest rivals, the Citizens Movement’s Enrique Alfaro and Fernando Guzman of the National Action Party (PAN). At 38, Sandoval would be one of the youngest governors in the past 100 years.