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A Green Party billboard promoting the restoration of the death penalty[7]
In 2008, the PVEM initiated an advertising campaign in favor of reintroducing the death penalty in Mexico.[8] This led to the European Green Party's withdrawal of recognition of the PVEM as a legitimate green party.[9]
Anti-LGBT rights factions
During an interview, PVEM candidate Gamaliel Ramirez verbally attacked an openly gay candidate for Guadalajara mayor and called for criminal laws against homosexuality to be established. In the following days, Ramirez issued a written apology after the party expressed disappointment at his remarks.[10]
The PVEM is also widely criticized because its current leader, Jorge Emilio González Martínez, was appointed for being the son of former leader Jorge González Torres,[11] and for supporting the political and business agenda of Mexican businessman Víctor González Torres, owner of the Farmacias Similares drugstore franchise and González Martínez's uncle.[12]
The Quintana Roo state branch of PVEM removed its leader, José de la Peña Ruiz de Chávez, for his relationship with the Romanian mafia on February 10, 2021. He kept his position as a member of the Congress of Quintana Roo.[13] José Luis Jonathan Yong, former Public Security director in Cancun (2016-2018) has been implicated. De la Peña Ruiz de Chávez is said to also have ties to Leticia Rodríguez Lara "Doña Lety", leader of the Cancun drug cartel.[14]
Unlawful political advertising in movie theaters
In January 2015, the National Electoral Institute (INE) ordered the PVEM and theater chains Cinemex and Cinépolis to cease airing PVEM advertisements on the grounds of fairness in electoral contests. When the PVEM and the theaters did not comply, the INE imposed a fine of $35 million on the PVEM and $7 million on both theater chains.[15]
2021 post-campaign influencer posts
In 2021, several Internet celebrities were fined for illegal posts in favor of PVEM on social media after the period of campaigning had ended.[16] Fer Moreno admitted she had been paid MXN $10,000 (US$493.34) and apologized.[17]
^Sevillano, Luis; Galindo, Jorge; Clemente, Yolanda; Alonso, Antonio (2021-06-07). "Resultados de las elecciones de México". EL PAÍS (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved June 11, 2021.
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