¿Election Results, Analysis?

Do any of you locals wish to share information and your takes on how Sunday's elections will or will not affect Zihuatanejo and Guerrero?

I can't exactly say that "the good guys" won, but I can say that some very bad politicians lost. And that's good.

Our mayor-on-leave lost his bid for a diputación federal, and his sidekick (the guy who called the cops on the neighbors opposed to putting a tin roof over the basketball court in front of their homes) also lost his bid for a diputación estatal. The local PRI candidate for mayor (same party as the mayor-on-leave) probably wouldn't have been a bad mayor had he won, but because the current PRI mayor did such an abysmal job and because the candidate had some folks on his ticket perceived as corrupt thieves and scoundrels, he got soundly rejected by the local population in spite of the thousands of unkeepable promises, land invasions and vote buying made on his behalf.

So our mayor-elect is Gustavo García Bello, a member of the PRD who used to be in the PRI and who has been trying to be mayor for 9 years.

Our governor-elect is a member of the PRI, Hector Astudillo Flores.

So far none of the losers have shown their faces or made any declarations that I'm aware of. The local newspaper is noticeably lighter without all their paid propaganda.

And a pleasant surprise is that local radio talk show host and personal friend Sergio Vázquez Rosas came in 3rd place in the mayoral race, running with almost no budget in a brand new unknown party called Partido Humanista. The PRD and PRI had millions of pesos to spread around and buy votes with, but Sergio just walked around from house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood, village to village talking to people. He was by far the best choice, but he didn't have the extensive corrupt political machine like the other parties have built. He did so well that he now qualifies for a regiduría (like a council member) in the next municipal administration. A position that will allow an outsider to monitor the workings of the next municipal administration, and with his position as a radio talk show host popular with the local community, especially businesspeople, community leaders and intellectuals he will be able to immediately inform the public of any shenanigans, as long as he himself isn't compromised by corruption. But his friends will know immediately if he is. So Sergio is a bright spot on our otherwise uninspiring political scene.

For Zihuatanejo I expect NOTHING to change. Only now we will have some new instant millionaires, same as always. And because the state leadership is one party and local leadership is another, I expect Acapulco will continue getting all the attention while Zihuatanejo will continue being used, abused and overlooked. Nothing new here.

One thing worth mentioning is that the governor-elect made a campaign promise to build a cruise ship pier in Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa. So it looks like here we go again... ROUND FIVE of having to fight the stupid unnecessary cruise ship pier project. All because those millions of budgeted pesos are just too attractive bait to resist for the corrupt kickback-seeking politicians that dominate our political arena. Hopefully the mayor-elect will not fall under the spell of imagining what to do with his share of the millions to be siphoned off from the cruise ship pier construction budget.

We just want our bay cleaned, our piers fixed, our ecological zones protected, our infrastructure brought up to speed, and our tourism economy reactivated. We're not asking for much.