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This entity is one of the few that the PRI still governs and has never experienced a transition. According to Mitofsky’s ranking of governors, his president, PRI Omar Fayad, is in 17th place with 50.7% of the support of his governed.
But according to the polls, Morena leads the voting preferences in the entity. That according to the survey of The Herald, which points to a defeat of the PRI, which would have 27.21% of vote intention, below the 38.76% of Morena.
But as in other entities, in Morena there is crisis and interference by old political teams, which is reflected in a bench of local deputies that has had four coordinators, accusations of corruption, as well as interference from the so-called University Group, or the “Sosa Nostra “, Headed by Gerardo Sosa, expriista, today imprisoned for alleged organized crime and use of resources of illicit origin for 52.8 million pesos.
That group also influenced PRD cadres and now Morena, as some of its members are local and federal deputies. Now they seek to reach the governorship, according to accusations among the same Morenoites.
In addition, the situation of Morena in the entity is complicated, because just on Monday the former singer and now local deputy with license Francisco Xavier Berganza, who arrived with the acronym of Morena, left the seat to seek the independent candidacy to the state government, since it was excluded from the polls to define the icing on the cake.
This would be his fourth dispute for the position. He has been in the PAN, Nueva Alianza, Convergencia (now the Movimiento Ciudadano party) and in the PRI.
Lisset Marcelino Tovar
She is a reelected local deputy, and before dedicating herself to politics she was manager of the Propollo company. Last March she was immersed in the dispute over the coordination of Morena’s bench, which she temporarily headed.
In April the National Electoral Institute (INE) imposed a fine on him because in 2019 he held an event in the local Congress, which constituted a contribution in kind to the party. This was the presentation of the Political Ethics Booklet of his party, which was held on May 28 of that year, in which Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, secretary of the Organization of Morena in the entity, and Eder Guevara Martínez, were invited to the legislative headquarters. Trainer of the National Institute of Political Training.
Maria Merced González González
This morenista is a senator because the owner legislator, Angélica García Arrieta, also a morenista, died within weeks of reaching the Senate.
On April 20, González made a mistake during a virtual meeting, as he revealed that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was interested in the elections in Jalisco and Nuevo León: “Ricardo Monreal told Senator Antonia Cárdenas and a servant that we should ask them this communiqué, which is of great interest to the president, in this case commented on the states of Jalisco and Nuevo León ”, he said.
His party partner Mónica Fernández clarified to him “I believe that your message could be transmitted in another space” and hours later he assured that he did not reveal any political intention of the president and accused that, on the contrary, those who were acting irregularly were those of the Citizen Movement .
Simey Olvera
She is a reelected federal deputy, began her political career in the PRD and calls herself “La paloma.” Her training is a communication scientist and she has been a reporter, news anchor, broadcaster and media operator for the entity. As a graduate of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, she has been credited with being part of the University Group.
Last season he was the victim of criticism on social networks, as he recorded a campaign video imitating the singer Gloria Trevi and the song “scandal”. Instead of the phrase “Open up bitches, the good one has arrived”, the deputy says “Open up, prianes, Morena has already arrived.”
Abraham Mendoza Zenteno
This morenista is superdelegate of the Programs for the Well-being in Hidalgo. He has been singled out for having operated electorally in favor of Morena and also being close to Grupo Universidad. In addition, he faces accusations of partiality in the delivery of support, or refusal to deliver them, to the victims of 10 municipalities that on September 6 and 7 suffered from the overflow of the Tula River, apparently because the floodgates of the Tunnel Emisor were opened intentionally. East to prevent the flooding of Mexico City and the State of Mexico
He would have told the victims “I promised them nothing,” according to local media, so the claims reached President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who allegedly would have banned him from being present during the tour he made in the area, two months later.
Cuauhtémoc Ochoa
He is a civil engineer from the Ibero-American University and has been a federal deputy twice, in 2003 of the PVEM, a party that ran for him again last June, but won the seat and a month after the 65th Legislature he jumped to Morena’s bench.
He was a federal official in the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto, during which he served as an undersecretary in the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources for six years. From 1999 until this year he was the leader of the PVEM in his entity, a party that allied with the PRI on several occasions. Thus, from 2007 to 2011, he held two secretaries of the state government: Tourism and Public Works, Communications, Transportation and Settlements during the entire government of the PRI Miguel Angel Osorio Chong. Like Osorio, he supported Enrique Peña Nieto in his 2012 presidential campaign, and there the now morenista was “energy coordinator.”
Julio Menchaca
He is a senator from Morena, but he served for 35 years in the PRI, for which he was a pre-candidate for the state government in 2005. He is credited with being close to the leader of the Morenoist senators, Ricardo Monreal, and a long-standing friendship with the president of the Senate, Olga Sánchez Mutton.
He was a local deputy and a year after leaving the tricolor he was an independent candidate for the municipal government of Pachuca. He is the founder of Morena, which he joined in 2017 before obtaining registration. Of all the candidates for the Moreno postulation, he is the one with the longest career; In 1976 the presidency of the Republic named him “National Youth Value”, he was an official in the state, General Comptroller of the Judicial Power, official of the Secretariat of Economic Development and presiding magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Hidalgo, stage in the that coincided with Sánchez Cordero being a minister of the Court.
Navor Rojas Mancera
A political scientist by training, he is a federal deputy for Morena for the first time and has not held another legislative or government position. He was municipal secretary general of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, during the municipal administration of the PRD, from 2003 to 2006. From 2010 to 2015 manager to “lower resources”. In addition, he was the coordinator of a Social Encounter (PES) campaign for a federal council.
