The candidate running from the PRI-PAN-PRD opposition alliance has been killed in the community of Las Lomas, local media reported on Wednesday.
An attacker with a handgun approached the candidate, who was talking with residents in his home community at the rally, from behind and made at least 16 gunshots, a video posted on social media showed.
Earlier on Wednesday, a candidate from the ruling Mexican party for the post of the head of the Encarnacion de Diaz municipality in the state of Jalisco, Gilberto Palomar Gonzalez, and two others were injured in an attack. The candidate, as well as his brother and secretary, were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
As many as 82 people engaged in electoral processes have been killed in Mexico since last summer, 34 of them candidates for various local offices, according to the Laboratorio Electoral research center. A total of 2,172 cases of various types of violence, including assaults, threats and kidnappings, have been recorded between 2023 and 2024.
General elections in Mexico to elect a new president for a six-year term, 500 members of the lower house and 128 lawmakers of the upper house, as well as nine governors and over 19,000 local officials, will take place on June 2.