One day before the elections on 6 June 2021, PRI deputy, Paola Gárate, was kidnapped for approximately nine hours while running for the Congress of the state of Sinaloa.

In an interview with the site La Silla Rota, the deputy said that on Saturday afternoon she attended a supposed meeting of congressional candidates, where she was the only one present.

After leaving the facilities of the League of Agrarian Communities, behind the PRI's state headquarters, he headed to his office campaign, located on the southern outskirts of the city of Culiacan, where it was intercepted by a convoy of more than 20 trucks.

She remembers seeing armed and masked men who held her for several hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning, election day.

“We are survivors of that narco-election in which, like me, thousands of people were kidnapped: political operators terr stories and people who were part of the Va Alliance for Mexico, at then formed by the PAN, PRI and PRD parties,” he stated.

He declared that 90% of the electoral structure of the party had been hijacked. This structure plays a fundamental role in electoral supervision by monitoring voting at voting centres, where numerous incidents were reported.

The PRI legislator affirmed that the United States government is justified in prosecuting 10 officials accused ​​of having links to organized crime in Sinaloa, something that was reflected in the 2021 electoral process.

“If the proof is still lacking, as the president has said, then here they have witnesses who survived that narco-election,” he noted.

“The demand is that the Mexican government comply and carry out arrests, because if the United States government has already complied his part in issuing that arrest warrant to the Mexican government, is because he fully complied with the entire process,” he emphasized.