‘Pato’ Zambrano denies declining in favor of the Citizen Movement

Written in LOCAL on 5/8/2024 · 10:16 a.m.

Monterrey. – The Vida NL candidate for mayor of Monterrey, Patricio Zambranoruled out the possibility of declining the race in favor of Mariana Rodríguez.

After strong rumors last Tuesday, after a video circulated in which the candidate receives a sticker from Mariana and greets people from the Citizen Movement, Zambrano offered a press conference to deny any rumor, ensuring that the orange party candidate did not even He has not even approached him to ask for support in the electoral race.

Zambrano said that Emecista people promoted a photograph of him with Mariana Rodríguez on social networks, and added that the governor Samuel Garcia He also shared the video on his Instagram profile, mentioning that everything was a dirty war strategy, and that he would not leave the race “even if only three people voted for him.”

“It is inadmissible that the Citizen Movement, with which I have not gotten involved nor have I mentioned its name, dares to manipulate a video where some young girls approach me to ask for a duckling, knowing that I was going to deny it the next morning, I would not decline Even if only three people voted for me, they would not be fully and completely represented,” he said.

Regarding the video, he explained that a group of young people who promoted the orange candidate recorded it so that she could send greetings while they gave her a sticker, which he mentions was used by people within the party to create the rumor.

Pato Zambrano (center) at a press conference | Victor Hugo Valdivia | ABC News

The activist also said that there have been approaches from third parties Citizen movement to get out of the election, like people from Morena, and from the PRI and the PAN who are in coalition, but in none of the cases have they been offered money, and neither have they been offers directly from the candidates.

“If there was an audio, if there was a video or there was a writing and someone presented it, I would get out of the race, it is false that I am going to decline for the lawyer Mariana Rodríguez (…) they have approached me through third parties , different parties, even the Citizen Movement, however, there has never been a financial offer, they don’t come to offer me money because they know that I go and shout it in the street,” Zambrano added.

Finally, the candidate of Life He ruled out feeling that this could affect his campaign, and on the contrary, he said that this helped him realize that even within the Emecista team, his popularity has caused noise.