Dinosaur-dressing Mexican senator adds bite to presidential race


FILE PHOTO: Mexican Senator Xochitl Galvez speaks during a private event as she pursues the opposition alliance's candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, in Monterrey, Mexico, August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When Xochitl Galvez lumbered onto the floor of Mexico's Senate last December dressed in an inflatable green dinosaur suit to protest a ruling party bill, even the flustered leader of the upper house trying to rebuke her could not suppress a smile.

The stunt by Galvez, who crashed the rostrum holding a card reading "Jurassic Plan" to criticize legislation from the ruling leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) as retrograde, is one of many that made her famous before she won the 2024 presidential candidacy of the main opposition alliance this week.

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