The alliance between PRI and PAN fades

Néstor Jiménez

La Jornada newspaper
Monday, July 28, 2025, p. 4

The alliance between the Institutional Revolutionary Parties (PRI) and National Action (PAN) is in doubt, both in 2027 and 2030, after, two years after the intermediate elections, the tricolor He has already begun to expose before his members that he plans to go only for the aforementioned elections, in the midst of a accommodation to promote his national leader, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, as his eventual presidential candidate.

In the rows of the PAN they agree that last year they had bad results with the coalition with the PRI, so they will evaluate the relevance of maintaining the alliance.

Genaro Morales Rentería, leader of the so -called critical current in the PRI, explained that the balance made within this political force is that, if they will go with the PAN, they will achieve worse results in 2027, but at the local level, each state committee will be the one that defines if they will compete along with another party.

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If we had had our own candidates, we would get at least 10 percent more, and now we would have 50 federal deputies. That is the balance: we are better alone than in coalition with bread, it allows us to recover our identity, that our political cadres are taken into accounthe said.

Instead, the Alternate federal deputy also said that With national action there is as a toxic relationshipand has not let them grow in the electoral plane.

During the recent weeks, the Secretary of Organization of the Party, Jorge Armando Meade Ocaranza, presented in meetings with PRIists of Hidalgo, Puebla and the State of Mexico, who prepare to compete alone in the next elections.

For many PRI, Morales Rentería added, “Alito He is the natural candidate for the presidency and should be the natural candidate of the entire opposition ”, and explained that a sector of the tricolor It remains open to a coalition with the blue and white for the following presidential elections, but with a PRI candidate.

Asked about the future of alliances, the spokesman for the National Executive Committee of the PAN, Jorge Triana, declared that, despite the fact that in 2021 they achieved good numbers, In 2024 the results were very bad. Therefore, we have to take into account all these circumstances to evaluate whether or not to weave new alliances towards the 2027 intermediate choice.

Regarding the PRI intention to start a route that leads to Alito Moreno to the candidacy, Triana stopped that It is very premature to define whether there will be an opposition alliance to 2027, and much more about 2030. It is still more hurried to start shuffling names from now on. What corresponds is to wait to see how we are in the 2027 choice, evaluate whether it is convenient to maintain the alliance, and, from there, analyze who are the most profitable profiles. If it is confirmed that it should go together, then it will be time to talk about names.

By pointing out that at the time they will announce their official position, he stressed that Alliances must be built from the local. Therefore, we have released the state leaders of our party to value whether they are profitable and with what parties can be generated in their respective entities.