Roberto Garduno
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 17, 2022, p. 4
The parliamentary group of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the Chamber of Deputies will meet in Coahuila to express its support for Governor Miguel Riquelme Solís, join the candidacy of Manolo Jiménez (former mayor of the state capital and current Secretary of Social Development local).
They will also address various issues, including the direction of the nation, pensions, demographic analysis, the country’s public security and the 2023 Expenditure Budget with speakers such as Idelfonso Guajardo, Francisco Yunes, Mario di Costanzo (who was Secretary of the Treasury of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and later will accept an invitation from Luis Videgaray to join the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto in the Condusef), Carolina Viggiano, Rubén Moreira and Augusto Gómez Villanueva.
The purpose of the plenary meeting of the PRI members in the capital of Coahuila is to concentrate support on Governor Riquelme Solís, who is considered one of the main operators of the former great gameand who has promoted the career of Manolo Jiménez.
For five years to date, a government strategy has been put in place to support Jiménez, the current secretary of Inclusion and Social Development, who is heading into next year’s electoral process and is the favorite – in the polls – to become the standard-bearer of a likely electoral coalition. between the PRI and the National Action Party (PAN).
The average of the measurements and surveys places Jiménez with a degree of acceptance of 31 percent among the Coahuila electorate, followed by the senator from Morena, Armando Guadiana (who is bidding for that party’s candidacy) with 25 percent. On the PRI side, it is considered that Guadiana may see the support of the population reduced, because he is part of the elite of coal producers, and tragedy looms over that sector.
Furthermore, for representatives of tricolor –As for all parties, the measurements in the polls represent the best electoral indicator–, the PRI with its PAN ally has a voting intention of 47 percent, and on the other side, Morena and its associates –PT, PVEM and PES– add 43 percent.
Thus, this Wednesday, Thursday and at noon on Friday, the PRI supporters will give their support to Manolo Jiménez and his boss Miguel Riquelme, in the company of Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, who remains in the midst of a political crisis with no end in sight. .
