Roberto Garduno
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday December 6, 2022, p. 8
Convinced that by appealing to joy as a way of reconciliation, with its 7 percent acceptance among the national electorate, and hand in hand with its notable leaders, such as Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, Samuel García or the absent Enrique Alfaro, around More than 800 delegates from Movimiento Ciudadano participated in its extraordinary National Democratic Convention, where they planned to win the elections in the state of Mexico and Coahuila, and obtain victory by a wide margin in the 2024 process.
The announcement of those objectives required a huge stage, such as the Olmeca Hall of the World Trade Center. Its everlasting founding leader, Dante Delgado, insisted on not running in coalition with the prian
–as he stated it– nor with Morena.
As has happened in his latest public presentations, the visual has become the norm in his communication. Large screens, full volume sound, always highlighting the catchy song of the orange movement (performed by Yuawi and Moisés, from Barrio Zumba), which tried to lighten the spirits among the attendees who were numb due to the freezing air conditioning.
Thus, Dante Delgado, along with Verónica Delgadillo, José Manuel del Río Virgen, Alejandro Chanona, Martha Tagle, Clemente Castañeda, Jorge Álvarez, Ivonne Ortega, Salomón Chertorivski, and their figures of the moment, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, with his wife Mariana Rodríguez –influencers of social networks–, and Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, who throughout the event remained engrossed in front of the gel screen of his cell phone.
In this way, the emecistas advanced their media campaign to position themselves as the new political option: Citizen Movement should be the movement of joy. Joy as a discourse, joy is much more than happy faces, joy is the promise of a country that Movimiento Ciudadano has for Mexicans, it is the ultimate goal that it pursues in every battle, in every cause, and in every space it occupies. , because joy dwells in peace and justice in love and equality in the future; is to recognize and guarantee the rights of people
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In his opposition tone, Dante Delgado continued to attack President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: Today more than ever Mexico needs alternatives for the future, it has not been easy, because the federal government is moving towards the past. The President is lost, because he himself organized a march, and the job of a government is not to take to the streets, it is to give results, because that is what he was voted for; It is a mirage of transformation, the people are worse, Mexico is worse
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