A balance of what happened in recent elections with the opposition bloc PAN-PRI-PRD sheds the inevitable certainty that it was useless, mediocre and Irrelevant. However, their leaders maneuver to stay in frontby themselves or through their internal accomplices, instead of allowing the arrival of actors with greater intelligence, efficiency and courage.
He National Action Party is driven by Marko Cortes, a Michoacan formed in the shadow of Santiago Creel, whom he tried, unsuccessfully, to lead to the presidential candidacy. Creel served as campaign coordinator for Xochitl Galvez, in one of the most anodyne stages that can be remembered. In numbers, between 2018 and 2024 National Action did not win more votes despite a more robust registry and high citizen participation: it lost more than 350,000 votes.
Cortés and Creel designed a soft landing as successor in leadership for Jorge Romero, a small chief, with millennial shapes, mounted on control of the PAN in Mexico City, where the opposition alliance will govern five mayorships instead of the nine that it harvested in 2021. But this order of things could be derailed if the PAN actors who actually showed muscle decide to take charge of the battered party house.
In recent days, the possibility is advancing that the outgoing governor of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhué Rodríguez, will lead the bloc within the PAN that believes it is urgent to do things differently. And that he disputes the national leadership of the PAN with Cortés, Creel and Romero. Along with Aguascalientes, that Bajío entity was one of the few that resisted, not without injuries in battle, the Morenoist tsunami in the country. He retained the governorship in the person of Libia Denise, and the main mayoralties. Rodríguez Vallejo did not take refuge in a multi-member candidacy in case the ship sank.
The case of PRI of Alejandro “Alito” Moreno It supposes a cruder and smellier story. The “institutional” (never better earned the nickname) saw two million votes disappear between one election and another, in six years. In August 2019, “Alito” attended a meeting with state leaders of the PRI at the Government House of Toluca under the coordination of his now adversary Alfredo del Mazo. From there he emerged as national leader of the PRI, which allowed him to leave the governorship of Campechewhere accusations of a corruption galloping, with mansions of gold-plated hardware, a bowling alley with international standards and other whims exhibited by his successor, the Morenista Layda Sansores.
Suddenly, Mrs. Sansores – herself a mine of shame – suspended the revelations against Moreno by direct orders from Mexico City. From then on, the perception that the “opposition” leader honored his new alias: “Amlito” was validated. He also has a guaranteed senatorship, and is already preparing his office to hand it over to his ally, Rubén Moreira. The forecasts indicate that the PRI will continue to bleed, both towards Morena and towards the Citizen Movement. And that its disappearance possibly coincides with the centenary of its founding, in 2029.
He Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) It exhibited an advanced process of putrefaction years before the elections, as its main factions fought over the leftovers. The fight included Jesus Zambrano, Jesús Ortega and Luis Cházaro, former allies, as well as the controversial former governor of Michoacán, Silvano Aureoles. The partisan coffers were emptied; Their bank accounts were frozen for several months by authorities from various fields. And the new arrest of Carlos Ahumada, once his patron, will remind us of old sordid stories. Barely turning 35, the PRD lost 481,000 votes between one election and another. And, with it, your record. No one will shed a tear.
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