MEXICO CITY, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A mayoral candidate was shot dead in broad daylight in central Mexico on Friday, local law enforcement authorities said.
Jose Remedios Aguirre, running for mayor of Apaseo el Alto, a town in central Guanajuato state, is the second mayoral candidate assassinated this week in the lead up to general elections in July.
The Guanajuato state Attorney General's Office said Aguirre's body was found at the entrance to a park.
Local media cited a police report as saying that at least two men shot Aguirre as the victim was entering the park. The killers then fled in a car.
Aguirre, 34, candidate of the left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena), was leading the polls, according to Ricardo Sheffield, Morena's candidate for Guanajuato governor.
Sheffield said "the motive (of the killing) was clearly political."
Aguirre was the former chief of police in Apaseo el Alto, a town of under 65,000 inhabitants.
Last Friday, another Morena's mayoral candidate in the city of Tenango del Aire, south of Mexico City was killed.
