Throughout the day, the organizers collected signatures in support of this citizen initiative in the center of Tlalpan, with a view to promoting primary elections to elect candidates for popular election positions.
The public letter and the signatures of support come after Morena’s announcement that Delfina Gómez, head of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), will be her candidate for governor of the State of Mexico, which led the PAN to launch Enrique Vargas del Villar, former municipal president of Huixquilucan, as his standard-bearer in that PRI stronghold.
Even the day before, the National Civic Front (FCN) and its State of Mexico chapter, called for the unity of the parties that make up the Va por México coalition and for the MC to privilege unity and commit to choosing the best candidate for the governorship. Mexican.
“In the face of the imposition of the Morena candidate (Delfina Gómez) disguised as a survey, those of us who oppose these anti-democratic practices, ask that the opposition candidate emanate from a democratic process, in which the citizen’s will is taken into account. ”, they indicated on social networks.
They also warned: “A defeat of the opposition in the State of Mexico for putting the interests of a party before the defense of national democracy would be a step towards defeat in 2024 and one more step towards the authoritarianism that Morena has as its main objective.”