Nestor Jimenez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 30, 2024, p. 4
By 2025, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) plans to continue with new internal reforms, in a debate within its ranks in which different voices have asked to modify the sectors that make up the party. tricolor to withdraw the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) as part of the party, after they have reproached the cetemistas for the institutional dialogue they have had with the federal government.
After the PRI completed a statutory modification promoted by Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas in the year to end, which allowed him to be re-elected as national leader, the Campechano has indicated that these were only the starting point for more internal reforms.
During the national assembly of the PRI, held in July, a statutory adjustment was also approved that opened the door for the national leadership, as well as the state and municipal leaders, to be reelected. At the same time, the National Executive Committee (CEN), headed by Moreno Cárdenas, was granted the power to request debt for the party without the ratification of other bodies.
This month, the man from Campechano already made use of that power and, with an agreement from the permanent political commission of the PRI national political council, signed by the national leader on December 13, the contracting of a line of credit for 409.5 was authorized. millions of pesos.
This document establishes that they will also carry out a restructuring of three bank loans totaling 189.5 million pesos. With this, the PRI will have a debt of almost 600 million pesos as soon as it obtains the new financing, despite the fact that in 2025 the National Electoral Institute (INE) will allocate 985.3 million pesos for the tricolor.
Meanwhile, the party is preparing an even greater internal reform. After the national assembly in July, Alejandro Moreno announced that the changes approved on that occasion were only the starting point for the great initiative that we are going to promote within the PRI
. In a press conference, he declared that it will be in 2025 when commissions will be organized that will work on this adjustment, due to a mandate of the national assembly
.
One of the proposals that was discarded at the last minute in that assembly was the request to remove the CTM as its labor sector. Members of the labor union explained that some party leaders, close to Moreno Cárdenas, claimed that the CTM did not establish a line to vote for the opposition alliance and, instead, have entered into institutional dialogue with the federal government.
In 2018, the Cetemistas approved in an extraordinary national congress a modification to their statutes which established that their members have the freedom to join the political party they wish, after eight decades with direct participation in the party. tricolor.
Since 2019, the Federation of Workers’ Unions Serving the State, which for decades had remained linked to the Institutional Revolutionary, separated from it with the resignation of the union’s leader, Joel Ayala, who until that time had accumulated more than 40 years of PRI member.
