Pragmatically, a politician in Mexico can change his ideology in one day and thus go from being a PAN-affiliated Christian Democrat to a Marxist-Leninist from the PT, or perhaps someone leaves the environmentalism of the PVEM to venture into social democracy. of the PRD, or why not?, move from the PRI to the 4T.
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They spent years in the PAN and now they are in the PT; or they turned their backs on Verde to go to the PRD. They are the new chapulines of Mexican politics.
This is the exercise carried out by pre-candidates who did not obtain the nomination for a governorship in the elections on June 5, so they “jump” to another party to achieve a candidacy, in some cases for a true vocation for power, and in others out of revenge, to take votes away from the party that did not postulate them.
Until three months ago, a fervent opponent of the 4T, defender of life from conception to natural death, who championed the fight to obtain medicines for children with cancer, Martha Cecilia Márquez, resigned from the PAN following not obtaining the candidacy for governor from Aguascalientes and will now go for the PT-PVEM alliance.
Deputy Laura Fernández of the PVEM resigned from this party in January and joined the PRD caucus in order to obtain the nomination of the Sol Azteca and the PAN for the governorship of Quintana Roo, but with her, a dozen leaders of the PVEM and the PT in the state, who now work with PAN and PRD members.
And there is also an actor and businessman in the race, Roberto Palazuelos, who is seeking the candidacy for the government of Quintana Roo.
CHAPULINES CAUSE DISRUPTION
But, there are political transformations, which matured little by little, as is the case of Marina Vitela, who until 2017 was a member of the PRI, a party in which she was a deputy, and in 2018 she joined Morena, she obtained the municipal presidency of Gómez Palacio, and now she will be the morenista candidate for governor of Durango.
There are “changes of skin” that do not pay off in the expected candidacy, as is the case of Senator José Ramón Enríquez, who resigned from Movimiento Ciudadano a year and a half ago to join Morena and get the candidacy for Durango, which was denied. and now the dispute in the Electoral Tribunal.
Laura Fernández Piña did not migrate alone to the PRD ranks, but with at least a dozen leaders of the PVEM and the PT in Quintana Roo who have joined her project, including Tania Casa Madrid and Manuel Graniel Heredia, who resigned from the leaders of the Green and Labor parties in Bacalar and Chetumal, respectively.
The PRD hour added the support of deputies Ana Pamplona Ramírez and Pedro Pérez Díaz, as well as Rubén Treviño, who reinitiated the PRI leadership in Cancún, and Antonio Ayala Lima, Pucté’s ejido commissioner, among others.
Also in Quintana Roo, although he has not been a member of any party, the actor Roberto Palazuelos has sought to be nominated for governor, first by the PAN-PRD coalition, which ruled him out and is currently seeking the nomination by the Citizen Movement (MC).
It will be until Wednesday, February 16, when the MC decides whether Palazuelos will be its candidate or not, informed the senators of that party, Verónica Delgadillo and Patricia Mercado.
“This candidate is not in accordance with the program, principles and identity of Movimiento Ciudadano, but at this moment for love of the project and trust in the project, Movimiento Ciudadano is deliberating and so we wait for the decision,” said Mercado.
Changing parties to obtain a candidacy does not necessarily pay off in the nomination, such is the case of Senator José Ramón Enríquez, who in June 2020 left the Movimiento Ciudadano bench to join Morena and despite being in first place in the polls , the pre-candidacy for Durango was denied.
Enríquez denounced on December 22, 2021, that Morena put on a “show” and filed two appeals before the party’s Honor and Justice Commission and before the federal Electoral Court, where he accused that he was stripped of the candidacy in favor of Marina Vitela .
In the same way, the former mayor of Reynosa, Maki Ortiz Domínguez, who in July 2021 was expelled from the PAN, joined Morena, and sought the candidacy for the governorship of Tamaulipas for this 2022, but the nomination fell to Senator Américo Villarreal.
“I realized that I had participated in a simulation, finding on Morena’s page a document signed by members of the National Elections Commission dated December 21, 2021, already naming Senator Américo Villarreal as the sole candidate. This means that when they summoned us they had already designated a candidate,” said Ortiz Domínguez.
TOGETHER THEY CHANGE PARTIES
One of the largest migrations from one party to another in Mexico’s recent political history occurred in 2018, when leaders of the PRI and PRD switched to Morena and are now candidates for governorships.
To repeat a scheme like that of 2021, where of the 15 governorships in dispute, Morena won eleven, by 2022 the ruling party appointed five old-fashioned politicians to be its standard-bearers, three from the PRI and two from the PRD. .
In Durango, Morena nominated for the gubernatorial candidacy Marina Vitela, former mayor of Gómez Palacio, who held public positions with the PRI for two decades and joined the ruling party in 2018.
In Tamaulipas, Senator Américo Villarreal, who entered Morena in 2017 and belonged to the tricolor for three decades, was named as a unit candidate.
In Hidalgo, Morena repeats the same scheme, nominating as sole candidate a veteran PRI member who was a member of the tricolor for 35 years, Senator Julio Menchaca.
In Hidalgo, Francisco Xavier Berganza is also the candidate for the Citizen Movement; he before he sought to be nominated by Morena but was rejected.
In the case of Oaxaca, Morena opted for an ex-Redista, Senator Salomón Jara, who will be his standard-bearer in the entity where this party has a great chance of winning. The Morenoite candidate for governor of Aguascalientes, Nora Ruvalcaba, also has a PRD curriculum.
“Chapulineo rots politics”
“What would have happened if the PAN made you a candidate for governor? What has rotted politics is this messing regarding,” Senator Xóchitl Gálvez said in the Senate session last Thursday, when questioning her former partner on the bench, Martha Cecilia Márquez, who was now making her debut as a PT legislator.
Senator Márquez Alvarado resigned last November from the PAN, as a protest once morest the imminent designation of her political rival, the former municipal president of Aguascalientes, Teresa Jiménez, as the only pre-candidate for the governorship for National Action.
“I fight once morest the corruption that some pseudo leaders are trying to install in Aguascalientes, not counting the damage they have already caused to the Aguascalientes city council and consequently to the citizens, to the families,” Márquez wrote on January 18, the day he joined to the PT bench.
In the three years of the current Legislature, the senator, from the PAN, supported the parents of children with cancer who asked for medicine for their children, and made the most vehement speeches in the Senate once morest the 4T.
Hector Figueroa
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