A mayoral candidate has been killed just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning.
A city council candidate who was wounded in the same attack on Monday also died, authorities said.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the killing of his own party’s candidates “hurts a lot,” but he did not announce any increase in security for politicians.
Bertha Gisela Gaytán Gutiérrez was gunned down on a street in a town just outside the city of Celaya, in the north-central state of Guanajuato. She had just launched her campaign for Celaya mayor on Monday and acknowledged she had asked for protection.
City council candidate Adrián Guerrero, wounded in the same attack, died on Tuesday.
“These events are very regrettable, because these are people are fighting to defend democracy, they’re out on the street, face to face,” L�pez Obrador said at his daily news briefing.
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