- Title: Paraplegic woman seeks to beat government party in crime-hit state of Zacatecas
- Date: 3rd June 2021
- Summary: ZACATECAS CITY, ZACATECAS, MEXICO (RECENT - MAY 25, 2021) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ZACATECAS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, CLAUDIA ANAYA, SAYING: "I am convinced of inclusion, and I will be a factor of change so that people with disabilities will have more development opportunities. My example says many things; I feel that I am representing people with disabilities, and
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- Keywords: Mexico Zacatecas elections gubernatorial candidate Claudia Anaya
- Location: FRESNILLO, ZACATECAS CITY, PANFILO NATERA + ZACATECAS, MEXICO
- City: FRESNILLO, ZACATECAS CITY, PANFILO NATERA + ZACATECAS, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: South America / Central America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
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Claudia Anaya, a woman in a wheelchair, is seeking to become the first person with a disability to hold a high government position in one of the most violence-stricken states in Mexico, where people with disabilities are completely marginalized from public life.
Anaya was left paraplegic in a car accident 20 years ago, but that has not stopped her from running for governor of Zacatecas, a state in north-central Mexico.
"I show by my example that people with disabilities are also part of this society. Before being disabled, we are people like them," she told Reuters.
Anaya, 41, is the candidate of a coalition of once major Mexican parties such as the PRI, PAN, and PRD, is running against Morena, the party of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who enjoys enormous popularity and wide positions of power.
Anaya hopes to pave the way for other people with disabilities in public life and make Mexico a more inclusive country.
"If we, people with disabilities and minorities, occupy these spaces and perform well, we will pave the way for a more inclusive world, society, and country," she added,
Mexico holds elections on Sunday (June 6) that will determine who controls the lower house of Congress, as well as 15 governorships and hundreds of lower elected offices, ​in a pivotal election for the agenda of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during the second half of his six-year term.
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