PRI's former senator Beatriz Paredes Rangel denied a fake image spread on social media portraying her as the PRI's presidential candidate for 2030. She clarified that the message does not come from her official accounts. The denial comes days after the PRI announced aspirants for 2027 gubernatorial races.
Beatriz Paredes Rangel, former Tlaxcala governor and PRI senator, responded to an image circulating on social media that depicted her declaring a presidential run for the PRI in 2030. The fake message stated: “They had forbidden me to say this, but I'm going to say it: I will be the PRI candidate for 2030 to fight for the presidency of the Mexican Republic, I hope you support me, people of Mexico”.'nFrom her official X account, Paredes debunked it: “This image has been circulating, with a message posted from an account in my name. The only account I have and manage on X is this one, from which I clarify that what is mentioned there is absolutely false”.'nThe episode follows days after the PRI announced its aspirants for gubernatorial candidacies in the 2027 elections.nParedes's last presidential bid was in 2023, in the internal process of the Frente Amplio por México —PRI, PAN, and PRD alliance— for the 2024 elections. She reached the final stage alongside Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz but stepped aside after PRI backed the PAN senator. Initial participants included Santiago Creel, Enrique de la Madrid, Miguel Ángel Mancera, Silvano Aureoles Conejo, and Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca.nParedes began her political career as a local deputy in Tlaxcala at age 21. She served as governor there from 1987 to 1992, one of the first women in that role. She held posts as undersecretary in the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform and Governance, ambassador to Cuba and Brazil, and president of the Chamber of Deputies. She led the national PRI from 2007 to 2011.
