What happened to the contestant who promised a free Metallica gig if he won

Carlos Augusto González, a candidate for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) who has promised to bring Metallica to Reynosa for free if he wins, it only managed to collect 2.5% of the vote, or 5,692 points.

Carlos Augusto, PVEM flag bearer for the municipal presidency of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, made himself known outside the entity thanks to a video that went viral of promise at a campaign event that, if he were to win in the election, he would offer a free concert by the rock band Metallica.

On April 20, the candidate’s video went viral on social networks, where he assured that “the wool is ours, we must invest it and I dare say it, listen to it carefully, if we become president, we will bring Metallica to Reynosa for free. Enough for our wool to be screwed into anything. ”

The campaign event was attended by young activists who appreciated the intervention of the Monterrey rock group Genitallica and other groups.

During his speech, the green flag bearer criticized Maki Esther Ortíz Domínguez, current municipal president of Reynosa for the National Action Party, and whose He claimed that in his administration the city “just isn’t progressing, neither is it.”

“We are not politicians, we are ordinary people, we have to change this messThis is not a Carlos González project, it is everyone’s project; We need to start getting involved now, enough of them are plundering ReynosaSaid the applicant.

However, until the court of minutes seized on June 7, Carlos Augusto González was located in sixth place in the electoral contest, with only 2.5% of the vote, i.e. 5,692 votes, according to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) of the National Electoral Institute (INE).

The victory in the entity was won by the flag bearer of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) coalition and the Labor Party (PT), Carlos Víctor Peña with 95 368, 43.4% of the inhabitants who voted.

With 69,314 votes and 31.6%, Jesús María Moreno “Chuma” of the National Action Party is positioned in second placeMorena had more than 10 points on the town’s PAN; Beatriz Yareli Rodríguez Vásquez of the Solidarity Encounter Party (PSE) finished third with a total of 13,148 votes.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) managed to get 5.3% of the vote (11,714), the flag bearer of the Citizen Movement Juan Carlos Zertuche is positioned in fifth place with 4.2% (9,258) and the sixth was taken by Carlos Augusto González.

In a video posted on his social networks after the polls closed, the green flag bearer acknowledged that the preliminary results elections indicated that the trend It was very marked and “Reynosa has already decided”, thus “showing political citizenship” and working for the good of the municipality, I wish Carlos Víctor Peña success.

“The reality is that this does not favor us, we have seen that the citizens have chosen Carlos Peña Ortiz, which I would like to congratulate. We hope that this competition continues like this, and it is political civility to know how to recognize it, we will continue to work for Reynosa and God bless Reynosa ”, he concluded in his video.

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