Roberto Garduño, Andrea Becerril and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday February 3, 2023, p. 4
One day after the PAN and the PRI confirmed that the PRD will be left out of conducting the selection processes for candidates for the presidency of the Republic and for the head of government of Mexico City and in response to the claim of the Aztec sun , yesterday morning the three parties announced that they maintain a united position.
The leaders of PRI, PAN and PRD, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, Marko Cortés and Jesús Zambrano, issued a letter in which they endorsed that they maintain their unity agreement, but without changing the substance of the process of selection of Va por México flag bearers.
This means that this process will not be opened to the civil society
represented by the organizations of Claudio X. González and Gustavo de Hoyos, as the PRD claims.
Hours later, Zambrano, together with other PRD leaders, former governor Silvano Aureoles and the party coordinators in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Miguel Ángel Mancera and Luis Espinoza Cházaro, maintained that they support an opposition alliance, but they will not allow no deal disrespectful
no impositions.
In the PRD, Zambrano maintained, We are not asking for alms from anyone
nor his participation in Va por México is unconditional.
In a press conference in the Senate, he added, they are convinced that this coalition will only be able to defeat Morena “if together with civil society they approve a democratic method for the selection of the 2024 presidential candidate for the state governorships, including the leadership Government of Mexico City.
According to PRI and PAN sources, in Va por México the PRD is identified as the instrument of pro-business civil organizations, which intend to intervene in the organization of the selection of the presidential candidate and displace the mechanism proposed by the PAN.
The evidence of the approach of the current of the mongrelswho maintain control of the PRD, with the business leaders who finance organizations of the so-called civil society
they maintained, have expressed themselves in private meetings where the heads of these groups have demanded that the door of the selection process for the presidential standard-bearer of Va por México be opened for them, even presenting candidates from outside the parties.
In his opinion, this could destroy the opposition coalition, since such a process would be unaffordable for the promoting parties and the only sector that could sponsor an open election is the private sector.
