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The day when their former representative of the municipal council did not argue any competitions on accusations of sexual abuse, the residents of the district 3 of San Jose approached the selection of his successor.

Gabby Chavez-Lopez and Matthew Quevedo jumped in front, followed by Anthony Tordillos, Irene Smith, Adam Duran, Tyrone Wade and Phil Dolan, according to the first batch of voting results published Tuesday evening by the registrar of the County County County Clara.

While the final results of the special election on Tuesday remain in the air, the municipal council race will probably go to a runoff on June 24, the crowded land preventing one of the candidates from receiving a majority of votes.

Chavez-Lopez received 30% of the vote, followed by 22.4% for Quevedo. However, Tordillos received 20%, leaving him to drag Quevedo by 156 votes to embark on runoff.

The field of seven people is in the running to replace the former member of the municipal council in disgrace Omar Torres, who resigned from his siege on last year’s election day before changing his plea on Tuesday who forces him to register as a sexual offender and could impose a prison sentence that can go up to 24 years.

The Torres scandal prompted the residents of the District 3 to put pressure for a special election – despite the price of several million dollars – due to the growing mistrust for the local government and the pressure of the residents to have his say in the choice of their next representative. While the municipal council agreed to hold a special election, it also chose to temporarily fill the seat through an interim appointment process which led to the engineer and businessman Carl Salas as a district representative until a winner of the elections has emerged.

Unless a candidate receives a majority of the votes, the two highest votes in Tuesday elections will move on run on June 24. The final count will not be known for at least a week because the votes sent by post will be eligible to be counted until April 15 as long as the Enevelopes are post-marqué on April 8.

The ultimate winner of the district seat of the District 3 – which represents the city center of San Jose and its surrounding districts – could also play a huge role in determining the way in which the mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, implemented his political program next year due to the slim voting advantage that his municipal council block currently holds.

Experts had estimated that runoff has always been the most likely scenario due to the big field and the number of solid candidates, making it a launch for those who have progressed to the next voting series.

The main competitors heading to the Tuesday elections were Quevedo, the deputy chief of staff of Mahan, Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, Tordillos, an engineer from Google and the current president of the city and Smith planning commission, a pro Tem judge, and the most recent Challenger of Torres 2022.

The Quevedo political platform largely reflected the agenda that Mahan presented in its budgetary message, focusing on the fight against the self-abrying epidemic, increasing community security, cleaning up neighborhoods, increasing the economy and building more housing.

While Mahan recently unveiled political proposals that attracted more attention through the state and some people consider controversial, Terry Christensen, professor emeritus of the State of San Jose and political expert Chavez-Lopez, said that affiliation had most likely supported the chances of Quevedo.

“I think it’s especially positive because many people like what Mayor Mahan does,” said Christensen. “People who don’t like him never was going to vote for him anyway.”

CHAVEZ-LOPEZ, a favorite choice for work for the headquarters, focused its campaign around improving safety and cleanliness, increased housing density and the rationalization of development, success of small businesses and the creation of a dynamic and inclusive city center.

Meanwhile, Tordillos tried to differentiate himself from the current ruling class and dissociated himself from particular interests and lobbyists while he favors homelessness, the development of affordable housing, public security and the improvement of the dynamism of the city center.

Quevedo, Chavez-Lopez and Tordillos also stood out from their peers in their ability to raise huge sums in the contributions of the campaign.

Although Smith does not have the same fundraising feats, it has put inlay on a level of name recognition to pass the word on its campaign, which focused on larger, faster and more profitable homeless solutions, budgetary responsibility, stimulation of downtown business and improving the citizens’ contribution process.

Although the race seemed to be cordial in the weeks preceding Tuesday, political advertising recently became more negative, with candidates or independent expenditure committees supporting them by exploding their rivals in perhaps which could be a precursor of the types of attacks in the next round.