Electoral hangover in Mexico: the state results move chips towards the Presidency

Not even 24 hours have passed since the elections to the governments of the mexican states of Coahuila and the State of Mexico, which were divided between the ruling party and the opposition, and the political parties are already making their first moves towards the 2024 presidential elections.

The candidate of the Morena ruler, Delfina Gomeztook over the State of Mexico, the most populous in the country and which had been governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for more than 90 years without interruption, while the opposition alliance, led by Manolo Jiménez, revalidated the northern state of Coahuila.

Both from the party of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), and from the Va por México coalition, made up of the PRI, the National Action Party (PAN) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), this Monday the starting gun was fired for the presidential elections of June 2024.

Both still have to decide who will be their candidate for the national elections. While Morena will do it through a still undated survey, in Va por México they will present their selection method on June 26.

The Mexican president and member of Morena, López Obrador, assured this Monday in his daily press conference that he will not intervene in the process of choosing his party’s candidate.

“there will be no finger”, he asserted about the process in which the head of Government of Mexico City and the current favorite, Claudia Sheinbaum, will participate; the chancellor, Marcelo Ebrard; the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López; and the leader of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.

The door, they assured from the party’s national leadership, is also open for candidates from allied groups, including Manuel Velasco, from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, from the Labor Party (PT).

“Today we begin our process towards 2024. We are going to agree with the applicants to establish dates and methodology so that we can have our candidate as soon as possible”, said the national leader of Morena, Mario Delgado, to Milenio Televisión.

So much so that Ebrard was scheduled to present a proposal this Monday afternoon to define his presidential candidacy, although at the party’s request he will do so on Tuesday.

“I had said that today I wanted to present my proposal so that it be taken into account in the next few days, I understand that on the 11th they will have advice from Morena for that purpose, that objective.or,” the foreign secretary said in a video on Twitter.

An energized opposition

Despite losing one of the most important squares in the country, the Va por México alliance celebrated its comfortable victory in Coahuila on Monday and also set its sights on the presidential elections.

The first stop on their itinerary will be on June 26, when they will announce a method “inclusive, participatory and representative” to choose your candidate.

“We are convinced that we will do what is necessary to win and correct the course of Mexico. Of course it is possible to win if we do what is necessary”, exposed the national leader of PAN, Marko Cortés, in a press conference together with his counterparts from the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, and from the PRD, Jesús Zambrano.

For this reason, they ratified their intention to run for president in a coalition and rejected the inclusion of the Morena candidate who is not elected, as had been speculated in the case of Ebrard.

In addition, Zambrano advanced bases that will make up a future electoral program, such as betting on economic growth, addressing the gaps in health and education, the fight against organized crime, or the eradication of corruption.

The third in discord

Although the opposition alliance called on Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), an opposition party that defines itself as a third way, so that, unlike in these elections, it joins the coalition in the dispute for the Presidency, the party’s national coordinator , Dante Delgado, rejected the proposal.

The leaders of the PAN, PRI and PRD accused the orange formation of being governed by “partisan interestsand do the “dirty game” to Morena.

Given this, Delgado stressed that his mistakes have caused López Obrador’s party to get closer and closer to hegemony.

“They continue to insist that the correct path is the mistake that they have followed uninterruptedly, society has said no to the project that they wanted to imagine”, he declared this Monday at a press conference held in the southern state of Yucatán.

Source: EFE