The results in the State of Mexico and Coahuila move chips towards the Presidency in 2024

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

The candidate of the Morena ruler, Delfina Gomezwas done with Mexico statethe 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, with Manolo Jimenez at the front, revalidated the northern state of Coahuila.

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Both from the game of Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorhe National Regeneration Movement (Morena), as from the coalition Goes through Mexicomade 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 Brunette It will do so 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 favourite, Claudia Sheinbaum; The chancellor, Marcelo Ebrard; the Secretary of the Interior, Adam Augusto Lopez; and the leader of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.

The door, they assured from the national leadership of the party, is also open for candidates from allied groups, among whom are outlined Manuel Velascoof the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), and Gerardo Fernandez Noronaof 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 Delgadoto Milenio Television.

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.

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“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 objectivethe 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”, explained the national leader of PAN, Marko Cortesin a press conference with their counterparts from the PRI, Alejandro Morenoand the PRD, Jesus 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 for Citizen movement (MC), an opposition party that defines itself as a third way, so that, unlike in these elections, the party’s national coordinator, dante delgadoHe rejected the proposal.

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The leaders of the PAN, PRI and PRD accused the orange formation of being governed by “partisan interests” and 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 Yucatan.

Source: Elcomercio

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