A contender in neighboring Sonora’s race for governor has bowed out and thrown his support to another candidate.
Ricardo Bours, the now-former gubernatorial candidate for the Movimiento Ciudadano, or Citizen’s Movement party, made the announcement Monday.
After lamenting the brutal murder of Abel Murrieta, the party’s mayoral candidate in Cajeme, he encouraged his supporters to vote for Ernesto Gándara, the candidate of a coalition of three major Mexican parties.
But Bours’ erstwhile party issued its own terse statement, saying the candidate’s decision was his own, and that Citizen’s Movement does not support it.
Alfonso Durazo, the candidate for a coalition led by the president’s Morena party, responded to Bours’ announcement in a tweet, writing “Nothing new. Those who were never apart announce a union.”
The election is June 6.
