“They have not built a solid militancy, rather, temporarily they have sought to adapt to the political context in which they participate, they are very small parties, which at some point become bargaining chips that allow them to offer themselves to the highest bidder to give them relief from one or two percent in the results,” he said.
Thus, while Movimiento Ciudadano rules out going in alliance with the PAN, PRI and PRD for the head of government -by not sharing the criteria and agreements reached in “Va por México”, despite assuming a position of opposition to Morena-, The Green Party – an ally of the “fourth transformation” – assures that it has already begun to gather profiles that will ensure the possibility of competing on its own and winning in at least six mayoralties.
What is the weight of MC and PVEM in CDMX
In the last two electoral processes in Mexico City, both parties risked their right to receive prerogatives from the capital’s electoral body.
Article 52 of the Law on Parties provides that, for a national political institution to have local public resources, it must have obtained 3 three percent of the valid votes cast in the previous local electoral process.
In 2018, the Green Party formed an alliance with Morena and the PT at the national level called “Together We Will Make History”, however, for the head of Government it competed separately with Mariana Boy Tamborrell, who managed to obtain 206,942 votes, which represent 3.8% of the vote and 196,273 votes in the mayoralties with 3.6%.
In this case, the party did manage to maintain its registration and its right to receive prerogatives from the Electoral Institute of Mexico City.
Contrary to that of Movimiento Ciudadano, who lost their right to local public financing for barely 115,000 votes in the competition for the head of government and 130,000 in the mayoralties.
For the 2021 midterm elections, where only mayoralties and seats were contested in the Mexico City Congress, the picture was different, as the PVEM obtained a total of 95,000 votes and MC just over 125,000. Although both results were relatively low, they did manage to exceed the threshold required to obtain funding.
By 2023, both parties are the ones that will receive the smallest budget in 2023, this being a non-electoral year, whose figures are between three and five times less than parties such as Morena and Acción Nacional.
