PAN, PRI and PRD began the process to resolve the question of how they will elect a unity presidential candidate for 2024, following they announced on February 11 before the civil group Futuro 21 that they would go in coalition.
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The opposition alliance that is set up for the 2024 presidential election will have to overcome the hurdle of how to define its unity candidate.
While the PAN statutes state that the presidential candidate must be elected by their militants, the PRI and PRD regulations allow their political councils to choose their standard-bearer.
For their part, citizen groups have various proposals. The National Civic Front seeks a primary election in which all citizens participate and that is organized by the INE.
Other groups such as Futuro 21 propose that different polling houses carry out polls to determine who would be the best positioned presidential candidate.
Since mid-2021, the civil organization Sí por México, made up of businessmen, social and political activists, was the first to propose a “roadmap” that allows the entire opposition together to bring a single presidential standard-bearer to the presidential race. 2024.
Since October 2020, the Sí por México group called for the consolidation of the Va por México alliance, between PAN, PRI and PRD, which granted a greater number of deputies to the opposition in the intermediate elections of June 6, 2021, in relation to 2018 .
“The PAN, PRI, PRD alliance, which did not exist until the 2021 election, has had up to 39 million votes in the past, so if they remain united, I believe that this will surpass the parties, as it was in this election,” political scientist Yuri von Berner Serbolov said in a remote talk to the members of Sí por México in July 2021.
The spokeswoman for Sí por México, the activist Denise Meade Gaudry, pointed out at the end of 2021 that the foundations must be established “to build a new narrative towards 2024”, with a plan for a vocation for power and a better project for Mexico.
He reported that there are already working groups where a plan is being prepared on four axes: strengthening of the PAN, PRI and PRD; search for alliances with national and regional political organizations; construction of a national mass movement and the mobilization of civil society with an emphasis on youth and women.
To date, Sí por México awaits a definition of PAN, PRI and PRD in order to have a method of electing a citizen candidate, who does not represent a single party, but the entire opposition, including those who are not active in any of them. .
On November 27, 2021, the National Civic Front was formed, made up of, among others, the PRD member Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, the former PT presidential candidate, Cecilia Soto, senators Gustavo Madero and Emilio Álvarez Icaza, as well as Ricardo Pascoe Pierce, Mariana Moguel, Raúl Trejo Delarbre and by the former PAN senator, Roberto Gil Zuarth.
Its members stated that the only way to guarantee the unity of the entire opposition is that the 2024 presidential candidate does not belong to any political party and that the citizens participate in his election, and that this exercise be conducted by an impartial body, not by the parties.
This citizen group proposed to carry out a series of debates at the national level of the possible standard-bearers, following which they will request the National Electoral Institute (INE) to organize a primary election so that citizens can choose who will be the only candidate who will compete for the presidency. in 2024.
“The Civic Front comes to unite, it comes to add, it comes to ask that the alliance be even broader than what has been built today,” said Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo.
For her part, former presidential candidate Cecilia Soto pointed out that the organization already has representatives in most of the states of the Republic.
In mid-2019, different center-left leaders announced the creation of a new party that would be called Futuro 21 in order to have a counterweight to Morena’s political offer, but the new political formation did not materialize.
Futuro 21 sought to offer a modern left offer to promote economic development and social welfare, in contrast to the “dogmatic left anchored in the 70s”, which, according to its organizers, Morena represents.
Almost three years later and following this political formation failed to consolidate, Futuro 21, whose coordinator is Demetrio Sodi de la Tijera, chose to make a call to the leaders of the PAN, PRI and PRD, in order to join the roadmap to elect a single opposition candidate.
On Friday, February 11 of this year, Marko Cortés (PAN), Alejandro Moreno (PRI) and Jesús Zambrano (PRD), had a meeting with the members of Futuro 21 in which the possibility that the candidate of the opposition is elected by means of polls, that is, whoever is in the best position before the citizenry.
At the meeting, it was established that the basis of the common project in which the citizen organizations that decide to join will participate, will first define a government scheme in accordance with the modernity that the country requires and later, they will look for the common candidate.
“They spoke, the three political parties, that they have reached an agreement, the priority, obviously, is the elections this year, on the 23rd and obviously, on the 24th, to have a single candidate who is at the head of the Coalition Goes for Mexico,” said Sodi de la Tijera.
PARTIES LEAD THE BATTLE
Although the PAN statutes establish as an “ordinary method” that its presidential candidate must be elected by its militants, there is also an “extraordinary method” so that the leadership of the party, through its National Council, elects his standard-bearer.
In the case of the PAN, the extraordinary method applies when the party forms coalitions with other political institutions.
This clause would allow the PAN, like the PRI and the PRD, to elect the possible unity candidate for 2024 through the validation of their political councils, prior agreement with the citizen organizations that are already promoting this broad coalition.
“Sharing responsibilities as responses to the serious situation in the country, the time will come later to define how we will select the candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic, but that comes later,” Jesús Zambrano, leader of the PRD, said a week ago.
“We have a good vehicle, what we need is a good driver, a good driver in the candidacy, and we are going to build it at the right time and on time, but we have to do it very intelligently and with a lot of strategy,” he said. Alejandro Moreno, leader of the PRI.
“Either we unite, or we sink (…) And what I see today is that this should be an opportunity for Mexico. We set ourselves a goal in the party: to win for Mexico, not for the PAN, to win the presidency for Mexico by 2024, and that is what I think we should all do together”, commented Marko Cortés at the same meeting with Futuro 21. , leader of the PAN.
Faculties
- In the PAN there is a method for your National Council to choose the standard bearer.
Coalition
- On February 11, PAN, PRI and PRD announced that they will go into coalition by 2024.
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