Today we are seeing a lawsuit between two PRI veterans. One has just been designated as the future candidate of his party for governor of Coahuila, another is the one who was left wanting to be chosen. They are politicians who learned to do politics in the PRI and then betrayed that party when the decisions of its leaders were no longer convenient for their personal interests.
The first is a 76-year-old man who was a member of the PRI for 43 of them. The second, 54 years old, belonged to that party for only six years and then successively went through another three. Today both are distinguished members of Morena. Some say that one of them will soon stop being one, although he swears and perjures that he will continue to be a proud Morenista.
I am referring, of course, to Senator Armando Guadiana Tijerina and the Undersecretary for Citizen Security and Protection Ricardo Mejía Berdeja.
Guadiana, as announced yesterday by the national president of Morena, Mario Delgado, won the polls supposedly conducted by that party to select who will be its candidate for governor of Coahuila in the election to be held on Sunday, June 4 of next year.
Mejía Berdeja, whom political scientists saw as the virtual winner of the candidacy, rejected the results of the polls carried out by Mendoza, Blanco y Asociados and Covarrubias y Asociados, assuring, without being able to verify it, that they were biased and manipulated in favor of Guadiana.
None of them have belonged to Morena for a long time. Both decided to join this party when it was more than evident that Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a very high probability of winning the presidential election on July 1, 2018.
Guadiana, who is also a wealthy and prosperous businessman, was a PRI member from 1969 to 2012. He entered Morena in 2017 and was nominated as a gubernatorial candidate for the election that took place in June of that year. He was in third place, behind PAN member Guillermo Anaya and PRI member and current governor Miguel Riquelme.
A year later he was elected senator in the federal election that brought AMLO and the morenista candidates who got on the train he was leading to power.
In 2021, he requested a license from the Senate to be a candidate for the municipal presidency of Saltillo. He lost to the PRI member Manolo Jiménez.
His election as gubernatorial candidate was surprising because, as Mejía Berdeja is denouncing, he did not appear as the favorite in many of the polls that have been disseminated, which could also be biased, but in his favor.
What’s more, with the background of his most recent defeat, there is no guarantee that he will emerge victorious from what will surely be his last electoral adventure, where it seems that he will once again face PRI member Jiménez.
The complainant today Mejía Berdeja, who was a PRI member from 1991 to 1997, a PRD member from 1999 to 2011, an EMECE member from 2011 to 2018, and a Morenista since 2018, was a PRI majority deputy in Coahuila, then a multi-member federal deputy for MC and later a multi-member deputy in Guerrero , also by MC. His current position has been held since June 2019. His resume does not impress.
The lawsuit between the two expriistas strengthens the party they betrayed.
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