Officials in Mexico have an interesting case on their hands as a supposedly dead man has won the mayorial elections in the town of San Agustin Amatengo. The dead man mayor, Lenin Carballido, posted pictures of himself with slogans that read "United for Development" and "Now is the Time."
But according to the authorities, Carballido's family produced a death certificate of himself from 2010--during which he was under investigation for gang rape. Local media outlets are reporting that the death certificate cites that his death was caused by "natural causes" after he went into a diabetic coma. The certificate was signed by a doctor and was issued by a local records office.
The party he was affiliated with, the leftists Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) is claiming that they were fooled by the candidate and he would not be allowed to serve as mayor.
"When he registered as a candidate, he presented all his paperwork, his birth certificate, a letter stating he had no criminal record," said the PRD's Rey Morales. "He fooled the prosecutors' office, he fooled the office of records, he fooled electoral officials."
The flyers make prosecutors wonder if he faked his own death, but also raise an important question: Why fake your death and return to run for mayor with your own name? Regardless, Carballido now faces voting law infringements and authorities may reopen his prior rape case.
"The state attorney general's office will investigate and bring charges, even if the suspect is recognized by electoral authorities as a municipal authority," said the Oaxaca state prosecutors' office.
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