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During the third presidential debate on May 19, one candidate made reference to a previous meeting that both candidates had at the Vatican with Pope Francis in February.
Our Lady of Guadalupe took center stage during the presidential debate in Mexico this week after candidate Xóchitl Gálvez accused her opponent, Claudia Sheinbaum, of “political opportunism” for wearing a skirt with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, “even though you don’t believe in her or in God.”
Gálvez is running for president for the Fuerza y Corazón por México (Strength and Heart for Mexico) coalition — which brings together the political parties National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and Sheinbaum is running for the Sigamos Haciendo Historia (Let’s Continue Making History) alliance headed by Morena, the political party founded by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe took center stage during the presidential debate in Mexico this week after candidate Xóchitl Gálvez accused her opponent, Claudia Sheinbaum, of “political opportunism” for wearing a skirt with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, “even though you don’t believe in her or in God.”
Gálvez is running for president for the Fuerza y Corazón por México (Strength and Heart for Mexico) coalition — which brings together the political parties National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and Sheinbaum is running for the Sigamos Haciendo Historia (Let’s Continue Making History) alliance headed by Morena, the political party founded by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Becomes Point of Contention in Mexican Presidential Debate
During the third presidential debate on May 19, one candidate made reference to a previous meeting that both candidates had at the Vatican with Pope Francis in February.
