2023-09-09 22:50:02
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The incipient electoral campaign in Mexico began to generate movements in government agencies. The chief of the Mexico City police, Omar García Harfuch, left his position on Saturday to join the team of the former mayor of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, who this week won the candidacy of the ruling Morena party for the 2024 presidential elections.
García Harfuch, who for almost four years led the Secretariat of Citizen Security during the Sheinbaum administration, announced on his X account, formerly the Twitter platform, that he resigned from the position to collaborate with his former boss.
Sheinbaum, who left the Mayor of Mexico City in the middle of the year, took on a new political role this week following winning Morena’s internal polls to be the standard bearer of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s organization in the next presidential elections.
When explaining the reasons for his departure, García Harfuch said that “being chief of the Police does not allow parallel agendas.”
The former police chief achieved notoriety following he was the target of an armed attack by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel that occurred in 2020 on a street in Mexico City.
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