Monreal: survey, yes, but organized by an entity with “full credibility”

Roberto Garduno

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 8, 2022, p. 6

Without moving from his initial position, Senator Ricardo Monreal reiterated his position against the poll method to elect the presidential candidate organized by the Morena leadership: If the poll is done by the party, organized, sung and decided by the party, I’m not going to go to that one. Of course, I don’t want to disparage the party members who carry out these surveys. I am calm, I am not going to confront President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, I have been working for 25 years to build a new course for Mexico. I have always said, I have been clear, I do not want to lie, my limit to staying in Morena is dignity.

In calling for an internal agreement, the candidate for the presidential candidacy emphasizes that he hopes that in a year that remains to us, the party designs, elaborates, innovates the mechanisms of political participation within, to renew leaders and to renew candidates for popular election, not only that of President of the Republic, but that of governors, senators, deputies, mayors.

At the same time, it establishes that the rules are clear, if the rules are equitable, if the rules are in equal circumstances, with a level floor, no one has to leave Morena. You have to accept the rules and submit to them, and also accept the results.

In this way he clarifies his position: he does not repel the polls, on the contrary, for Morena’s candidacies they would have to be organized by an autonomous body or autonomous entities, that they have full credibility, it is part of the consensus that we must reach, but I do not want anyone to be surprised and then they blame me or question me that for some reason I put disagreements.

-You have plenty of experience in these processes, how should the election for your party’s presidential candidate go? –She questioned him.

-That it was a very transparent contest in setting rules. What can be done, what must be done, strictly prohibit the use of public resources, whether they are goods or economic resources; totally prohibit the use of private resources; prohibit the viewing of thousands of billboards or billboards from one candidate and zero from another; equitable access to internal media.

That regional forums be held where the four candidates were present and each one presented their proposals on certain public policies, such as security, economic development, education, science and technology, health, social welfare, where there was a debate and a deliberation with the militancy, in where there were equality of circumstances, the equitable time for each one, raffled. All this would be very good and we should experience it and apply it in modern times of the movement to which we belong..

-If a poll organized by the current leadership of Morena is imposed, wouldn’t there be the risk or the temptation that the candidate who does not agree accept the candidacy of another party?

-I am the founder of Morena and I am going to fight within Morena, my condition is that, I have not thought, until now I have not thought, and until now I have no alternative plan. I have friends in all the parties, in fact, I talk a lot with the PRI, the PAN, with the MC, I talk with everyone, we talk daily about legislative issues and even about political issues, but what have they invited me to! No one has sent me an invitation, no one. We haven’t talked about it and I’m not knocking on doors to be your candidate, none of that has happened, on the contrary, I’m focused, all my intelligence, all my thinking, all my activity are aimed at staying in Morena and fighting within Morena .