Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 29, 2025, p. 10
The National Action Party (PAN) will hold its national assemblies today, 26 ordinary and 20 extraordinary, in which it will begin to discuss the reform of its statutes, through which it seeks to open its candidacies to citizens, among other aspects, within the framework of a strategy to attract new cadres.
At Expo Santa Fe starting at 9 in the morning, the strategy outlined by the national president of the blue and white, Jorge Romero Herrera, to be a party more “open to citizens”, after the “relaunch” of its image, on October 18.
One of the aspects suggested by the national leadership, which could be materialized in today’s assemblies, is the option that the candidacies correspond to “citizen” profiles – especially young people – and not necessarily to militants. “If you are the one who qualifies the highest, you are going to be the PAN candidate,” Romero said a month ago.
Likewise, the party will make official in its statutes the proposal to expedite the registration of new members, which can be done expressly on the website of that political institute or through an application, “with a single click.”
The above occurs at a time when the PAN only has a registry of 270 thousand members, the limit of the 256 thousand that the National Electoral Institute establishes as a minimum for political institutes to maintain their national registry and be able to compete in the 2027 federal elections.
Of all the parties, the blue and white It is the one with the fewest members, even below formations with fewer years of existence, such as the Citizen Movement.
Likewise, in the PAN assemblies the incorporation of primary elections open to citizens for the designation of candidates will be debated, a tool that could be combined with surveys and the vote of its members.
As has been reported in this newspaper, there are different voices within the PAN that have warned about the importance of making changes that renew that party. One is that of the coordinator of the PAN senators, Ricardo Anaya, who pointed out that if a thorough statutory reform is not carried out, these “could be the last days” of National Action.
