The former president of the extinct Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Luis Carlos Ugaldepoints out that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard is the best qualified of the profiles that seek to contend for the candidacy of the Morena party (National Regeneration Movement) for the presidency of the Republic.
The consultant, on tour in Guadalajara, gave a conference within the framework of the act of succession of the leadership of the Jalisco delegation of COPARMEX, and pointed out that the chancellor, in his opinion, is the best qualified candidate to participate in the next elections in search of the most important post in the country.
“To win, he has to bite off a piece of the middle classes, those that López Obrador has criticized so much; If you don’t take a piece, a segment of those middle classes, it’s not easy for Morena to win the presidential election. And I believe that the case of the chancellor is the person with the greatest capacity to be so; Last week, by the way, he presented a book, and challenging López Obrador, he said: “Mexico’s future growth is in the middle classes.”
Likewise, Ugalde pointed out that the Secretary of Foreign Relations is not the candidate who has all the preferences of the President of the Republic, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador“He, seeing all the people who are there, can guarantee loyalty, continuity, I think he is not going to choose him (Ebrard).”
He also stated that the president is very radical with those who stray from his guidelines, “a week ago, in the Mexico City zócalo, he said that whoever moderates betrays the Movement, alluding to the experience of the succession of Lázaro Cárdenas, from in such a way that it is clear that for him moderation and dialogue is treason; and therefore, I believe that inside her, he thinks that she, (Claudia Sheinbaum)or in any case, the Secretary of the Interior, are the ones who can guarantee loyalty to the Movement”.
In his conference, he also warned of a risk scenario of political instability following the 2024 elections, because if the icing party loses, the president might unleash chaos, “he would reject the result and this would trigger a political crisis, and perhaps a constitutional one in the country, and the situation from the financial, economic and political point of view of a country where the president rejects the result would be unprecedented”.
In this way, Ugalde made a call to invest in the media to promote reasoned voting, “it seems to me that business organizations such as Coparmex, and other civil society organizations, together with universities, can carry out a campaign in Jalisco to promote vote, a campaign that generates a reflection on the future of democracy and makes people go out to vote”.
He also said that the average turnout in presidential elections in Mexico does not reach three quarters.
