Morena goes for Edomex, Coahuila and the Presidency with a pact of unity

Israel Davila

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, June 13, 2022, p. 5

Toluca, Mex., The national leadership of Morena, acting and elected governors of this party, as well as candidates for the presidential candidacy, yesterday sealed a unity pact that will allow them not only to win Coahuila and the state of Mexico next year, but the presidential contest in 2024, which ensures the continuity of the Fourth Transformation project.

At the event, the national leader of Morena, Mario Delgado, announced that the candidate for the Presidency will be elected through polls and for this two exercises are planned: the first in exactly one year, to which all those interested in contend; the second, only among the best positioned in the first exercise.

No person is going to be able to replace the leadership of Andrés Manuel López Obrador; the continuity of the 4T project is the task of all of us, of all of Morena; That’s why we can’t divideDelgado said at a rally held on the esplanade of the Morelos Theater in Toluca, Mexico state, one of the last remaining strongholds of the PRI in the country.

We cannot forget the original design of this movement in each plaza, because Morena is an instrument of struggle for the people of Mexico; Morena belongs to no one, Morena is from the townharangued before thousands of militants and sympathizers of the icing party.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Head of Government of Mexico City; Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Adán Augusto López, Secretary of the Interior, considered the three main contenders for Morena’s presidential candidacy. All three were subjected to cheers and cheers and shouts of president, president either Chairwomanin Sheinbaum’s case.

In their speeches, Shein-baum, Ebrard and Augusto López made a commitment to maintain party unity and confirmed their loyalty to López Obrador.

We are more united than ever, that nothing personal is above the interests of the people of Mexico, we are united for the transformation and well-being of the people, social justice and because the people want it that way and we cannot fail them. We are also united with President López Obrador, because he is not aloneSheinbaum said.

Ebrard noted that unity is one of the party’s most important assets, but is built with respect for all Y with even floorY if we don’t divide, we will triumph in Coahuila, state of Mexico and in 2024.

Adán Augusto, who had the support of hundreds of sympathizers and popular representatives who arrived from Tabasco, thanked his followers for their affection, but made it clear that everything was done in due time. Neither before nor after, the times of the Lord are perfect, now it is time for unity and that no one can haggle over the President.

Meanwhile, Mario Delgado spoke of the need to restructure and reorganize the party and for this he reported that a call will be issued for the renewal of Morena’s structures so that, through the state assemblies and then the National Congress, a no later than September to the new management bodies.

The act was attended by the governors of Baja California Sur, Víctor Castro; Campeche, Layda Sansores; Chiapas, Rutilio Escandon; Michoacan, Alfredo Ramirez; Morelos, Cuauhtemoc Blanco; Nayarit, Miguel Angel Navarro; San Luis Potosi, Ricardo Gallardo; Sonora, Ruben Rocha; Tabasco, Carlos Merino, and Tlaxcala, Lorena Cuéllar; in addition to those elected from Quintana Roo, María Elena Lezama; from Oaxaca, Salomón Jara, and Américo Villarreal, from Tamaulipas.

Members of the federal cabinet also participated, such as the Secretary of Labor, Luisa María Alcalde; of the Environment, María Luisa Albores, and of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.

Of the morenistas from Mexiquenses who seek the candidacy for the governorship were the Secretary of Education, Delfina Gómez, who received the most applause; Horacio Duarte, general director of Customs, and Pedro Zenteno, director of Issste, in addition to Senator Higinio Martínez.