Behind closed doors, Alito registered to be re-elected as PRI president

Nestor Jimenez

The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, p. 5

Without allowing entry to the national headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to anyone who did not have prior authorization, the national commission of internal processes of the tricolor formally received the registration of Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas to be re-elected as party president, in a ticket with Carolina Viggiano, who seeks to repeat as general secretary.

Unexpectedly, the federal deputy from Veracruz, Lorena Piñón Rivera, and the Puebla native, Cuauhtémoc Betanzos Terroba, also registered. Far from expressing any criticism of Moreno Cárdenas’ leadership or elaborating on their motivations for occupying the leadership, they supported the statutory reforms that give rise to the re-election of their leaderships and questioned the dissident voices that have been critical of Moreno Cárdenas. Alito Dark.

If Piñón Rivera’s participation is confirmed, it will allow a period of proselytizing before the members of the national political council. The internal processes commission must notify today if the registrations are accepted.

At around 11 a.m., Moreno Cárdenas, the party president on leave, arrived at the national PRI headquarters. Outside the Alfonso Reyes auditorium, a group of militants with drums was already waiting for him, who cheered on the man from Campeche.

He handed over his documents and then gave a speech to the militants in the hall to which access was strictly controlled. The messages of the candidates were transmitted only through the social networks of the tricolor.

Never has the party been so besieged by harassment and intimidation from the authorities as in the years that we have headed our political institute. We are always under crossfire.Moreno Cardenas said.

He pointed out that, on the one hand, the PRI On the other hand, we have been exposed to the meanness and betrayal of people who have spent years of their political careers for the comfort, security and benefits that come from surrendering to power..

As he has expressed in recent weeks, he insisted on his attempt to separate this party “from the past mistakes of others, who handed over power and who are now scared to death because the government has them under control.

To all those who are waiting for the PRI to fail, you better hold on to your chairs because you will be left waiting.added the party leader on leave, and concluded: To the PRI what is the PRI, and to the traitors, let the militancy give them what they deserve..

In a message full of praise for what he considered the PRI of stability, progress and major national agreementsurged the PRI members not to retreat or back down.

As he left the party headquarters, he was asked if his re-election was justified after the last election results. He gave his answers with a dose of reproach because his re-election was the focus of the press. “Everyone knows that the bad image of the party was due to what was done in the past. I was not guilty of the Pemexgate. I received a shattered game in 2019, in pieces.”

–Doesn’t re-election violate the principles of the party, since it was founded on the idea of ​​non-re-election?

–That is what I am telling you, here it is up to everyone. In 2015 I was a deputy and we approved the re-election and consecutive election of deputies, senators and mayors, and we approved it. The consecutive election is in the PAN, in the Verde, in the PT, in the MC.

While he was speaking to the press, two people who passed by shouted at him. He already resigns, Nobody loves you, bastard, because you’re a ratthey threw at him. Instantly, Moreno Cárdenas responded: Greetings, greetingsHe also received cheers from those leaving the party headquarters.