Mexican mayor gunned down at bus stop weeks after winning election

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Mexican mayor gunned down at bus stop weeks after winning election
By Andrew V. Pestano Follow @AVPLive9 Contact the Author | June 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM

JERéCUARO , Mexico, June 24 (UPI) -- Rogelio Sánchez Galán, mayor of the city of Jerécuaro, Mexico, was shot to death Tuesday night at a bus stop less than three weeks after winning the election.

Multiple armed gunmen waited in a vehicle and began shooting after Galán and his cohorts arrived at the bus station some time after 8 p.m. The unidentified gunmen fled the scene.

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Mexico suffered from the third-most assassinations of mayors worldwide last year, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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There have been more than 20 political assassinations throughout Mexico since October, including the death of mayoral candidate Aidé Nava, who was found decapitated in March. Many assassinations are linked to pervasive, violent drug cartels and corrupt government officials.

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The mayor-elect was set to govern the town of Jerecuaro, which borders with the violence-hit Michoacan state.

A Mexican mayor-elect was killed Tuesday night at a bus station in the municipality of Jerecuaro, located in the lowlands of the central northern state of Guanajuato.

Rogelio Sanchez, from the infamous Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVM), was elected in June’s midterm elections to govern the town of Jerecuaro, which borders the violence-hit Michoacan state. Two other people with him were also killed by the unidentified gunmen.

Sanchez was going to take office in October, he had already been mayor of Jerecuaro for the conservative National Action Party (PAN) from 2009-2012. While he was in the post his public safety director was assassinated.

Mexico's latest midterm elections were marred by several violence events, 11 candidates were killed and there were ballot-burning incidents reported in several restive states in southern Mexico in an attempt to boycott the vote.

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