By Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:38 EST, 12 July 2013 | UPDATED: 03:48 EST, 12 July 2013 Prosecutors are investigating how a man certified as dead got elected mayor of a village in southern Mexico. Authorities say relatives of Lenin Carballido used a death certificate showing that he died of a diabetic coma in 2010 to convince police to drop an arrest warrant against him for allegedly participating in a 2004 gang rape. A living Carballido later ran in, and narrowly won, Sunday's election in San Agustin Amatengo in Oaxaca state. In his campaign, he posted photos of himself all around the village of 1,400 residents, with slogans like 'Now is the Time' and 'United for Development.'
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Lenin Carballido was elected mayor of San Agustin Amatengo in Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday
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But a death certificate shows he died of a diabetic coma in 2010
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Authorities say his relatives used the certificate to get police to drop an arrest warrant against him for allegedly participating in a 2004 gang rape
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Carballido's party, the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, said it had been fooled by the candidate
On Thursday, the @placeholder state prosecutors' office issued a statement saying it would do everything it could to put him in jail, even if he is formally sworn in as mayor, and was considering whether he might also face charges on election-law violations.