Mexican special elections, 2020

Special elections were held in Mexico on July 1, 2020 after incumbent president Xal'y Tssa'on Yyu called for elections, citing extraordinary circumstances. The country was undergoing a sociopolitical turmoil which started as a result of the release of the Xenomorph Files, a document which revealed that incumbent president Joseph Meade Granados was a Xenomorph called Xal'y Tssa'on Yyu.

President Tssa'on formed a coalition with almost every party in the country. Many sources claim that Tssa'on achieved this by personally threatening party officials or transforming them into Xenomorphs via Vitamin C.

The only party that didn't join Tssa'on's coalition, the Humanist Party, nominated Verónica Salazar as their candidate. She received support from various political figures who had formed a resistance against Tssa'on's new regime, but she was defeated by a margin of 86% of the vote and won only 1 state, her home state of Tamualipas, marking the worst loss in Mexican electoral history.

It has been speculated that the election was fraudulent, although the high amount of votes for Tssa'on can be credited to the amount of Xenomorphs which the regime had created via the spread of Vitamin C across all the country and the intimidation that Salazar supporters faced during the election cycle.

This election would result in a turmoil and after clashes between the Xenomorphic armed wing and pro-human rebels, Salazar was arrested and the Mexican Civil War began.

## Election course

### Pre-campaign

3 days after the Xenomorph Files reveal, Tssa'on announced that special elections would be held on July 1 due to extraordinary circumstances.

Initially, four candidates had expressed their desire to run; Tssa'on from LX, Salazar from PH, Javier Corral from PAN and Marcelo Ebrard from PRD. However, Ebrard was sent to jail after a ban on PRD was imposed, while Corral was forced to give up his candidacy after multiple threats to his family. Corral would later flee to El Paso, Texas, while Ebrard was brutally murdered in prison by xenomorph interns.

Tssa'on then announced the creation of the Xenomorph Front to compete in the presidential election, consisting of LX, PRI, PAN, PVEM, PANAL, PDM, PT and MC. The announcement was received with protests organized by PH, the last opposition party in the country. PH nominated Vero Salazar as their candidate on March 3rd.

### Campaigns

The campaigns began on April 1st, they were characterized by a downright intervention of the federal government, with Tssa'on using public resources to fund his campaign. In order to attempt to counter this, former presidents Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, along with governors of Veracruz Javier Duarte and Tamaulipas Carmen González "La Inge", announced the creation of a national collective named Fuerza Popular (Popular Strength) to support Vero Salazar in the presidential election. Fuerza Popular was made up of human civilians and politicians who oppossed THE Tssa'on government. The civil organization announced its support for Vero Salazar on April 27th, 2 days after its creation.

### Xenomorphic-Human skirmishes

Despite human efforts, Vero Salazar was unable to compete with Tssa'on's structure. There was only one debate, held on May 5th. The debate was viewed by an historic number of viewers, but it was estimated that most of them were xenomorphs. Tssa'on mocked Vero Salazar for her physical appearance through most of the debate, laying the ground for internet memes against Salazar. Moderators (all of which were xenomorphs) were also biased against Salazar, asking her rhetoric questions while practically ignoring Tssa'on. Salazar was considered to have been humiliated, and her voting intention dropped even further as vitamin C production continued to increase.

In June 6th, during a PH rally in Tampico, Tamaulipas where Ernesto Zedillo, López Obrador and Salazar were present, xenomorphs attacked people and attempted to spray vitamin C through the place. 21 people died in the turmoil and about 120 were injured. Fuerza Popular and Salazar held Tssa'on's government accountable and demanded an independent investigation on the event. However, Tssa'on and his government denied any involvement, and claimed that Salazar supporters were the ones who started the violence.

### End of campaigning

The last relevant event of the campaign was the endorsement of Vero Salazar's candidacy by many important businessmen on June 26th, including Victor González Torres (founder of Farmacias Similar and known popular figure known as Dr Simi), Grupo Monterrey, Carlos Slim Helú and Emilio Azcárraga Jean, president of Televisa. They would later join Fuerza Popular.

### Election

Elections were held on July 1st. Tssa'on's coalition won every state with the exception of Tamaulipas and 91% of the vote. It is believed that Tssa'on gained this amount of votes due to the creation of Xenomorphs that his regime had instated via the spread of Vitamin C.

## Candidates

### Xal'y Tssa'on Yyu

Formerly known as Joseph Meade Granados, incumbent president Tssa'on was revealed to be a Xenomorph following the release of the Xenomorph Files on January 1, 2020. He called for the elections citing extraordinary circumstances.

Tssa'on campaigned on law and order and carried on multiple false flag attacks to blame the opposition and even outlaw opposition parties. Through the election course, Tssa'on kept concentrating more power in the executive, effectively giving him more power. He also created millions of Xenomorphs via the spread of Vitamin C carried by the National Guard and other organs.

Tssa'on won the elections with 91.37% of the vote, and it's believed that many of his voters were Xenomorphs who had been transformed.

### Verónica Salazar

Salazar was nominated as the candidate of the Partido Humanista and was backed by many human politicians, activists, and international leaders when she remained as the sole opposition candidate. However, due to the arrest of multiple human journalists, the only remaining journalists in the country were either Xenomorphs or had a heavy bias towards the government. These journalists would often make fun of Salazar's peculiar appearance and her lack of experience. Very often during the election cycle, several hours of the news cycles in television channels would be dedicated to attacking her candidacy. Her supporters were also frequently intimidated and many high-profile figures who endorsed her had been arrested, leading to her ticket receiving low enthusiasm despite the extraordinary situation.

Salazar was targeted by Tssa'on through the election and blamed for many false flag attacks, while the entire opposition rallied behind her. However, she ended up gaining only 5.34% of the vote. She refused to recognize Tssa'on as the president alongside the opposition.

Shortly after the election, Salazar organized protests in Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León governor Jaime Rodríguez Calderón  (who hadn't been revealed to be a Xenomorph yet) secretly sent a division to pacify the protests ongoing in the neighboring state. This resulted in about 160 human casualties and the arrest of Salazar. Salazar would be liberated a few months later and as tensions kept rising, the Mexican Civil War started.