A candidacy for the presidency of the Republic is built over years, so the opposition is seen as disadvantaged. Officially, the electoral process will begin at the end of 2023, so the PRI, PAN, PRD have little more than a year to outline a candidate, and in their case, convince the Citizen Movement to join their alliance, a party that has already rejected them. telling them not to invite them to get on the Titanic.
An informal list has emerged from the president, who, rushing the opposition parties, suggested they choose their candidate now.
“I would advise them to continue like this, to continue on their way, and to start selecting their candidates for the Presidency, because I am already seeing that there are those who say that they are going to participate: Mrs. Lilly Téllez, Quadri, but also surely the Mrs. Margarita Zavala, there are three there. Santiago Creel, perhaps Loret de Mola, Carmen Aristegui, the president of the PRI, what is his name? Alexander Moreno. There is another from the PAN who is also there, Marko Cortés, anyway, now. Claudio, civil society, finally. Once they start, because it is not just the time of the campaign, and what Quadri and Mrs. Lilly Téllez are doing, it is already because time is needed, ”he said.
Months later, he included in that list the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, and the PAN member Mauricio Vila, the current president of Yucatan.
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It takes time to build a candidacy and whoever starts before can get advantages.
“Vicente Fox left the governorship of Guanajuato to build his candidacy, and he won. He had an advantage over the others because he had already walked many kilometers, in the 2024 election the same thing will happen”, says Bernardino Esparza.
There are 23 months left for the largest electoral process in history, so the opposition needs to speed up its agreements and proposals to outline its candidate.
“They are just in time to build it, I don’t feel they have the time, but it is time to give it a twist. They still have time, creating a new discourse, a new character that breaks with that past they have had”, says Efrén Arellano.
