PACHUCA, Hgo. (apro).- The eight local deputies that made up the bench of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the Hidalgo Congress resigned from their membership, arguing “lack of spaces” and disagreement with the actions of the national leadership, led by Alejandro Moreno Cardenas.
With them, the current leadership of the PRI State Steering Committee (CDE), chaired by legislator Julio Valera Piedras, also declined to continue in the party.
This is the first time in the political history of the entity that the PRI – which in 2018 lost the parliamentary majority it had held since its foundation in the local legislature, and in 2022 the state government after 93 years of command – is left without representatives. in the camera.
The political positions, both in Congress and in the Steering Committee, were obtained by the now ex-PRI members during the term of Omar Fayad Meneses (2016-2022), who on June 15 resigned from his membership of more than 40 years by accusing that there is no space “for criticism that builds” or positions for those who differ from the current national guideline, led by Moreno Cárdenas and Carolina Viggiano Austria, general secretary and last candidate for governor of Hidalgo.
The now ex-PRI members, who belong to Fayad’s political group, are Julio Valera, who served as coordinator of the parliamentary group and leader of the local PRI party; Marcia Torres González, former municipal secretary of the Metztitlán city council; Erika Rodríguez Hernández, former federal legislator and former secretary general of the CDE of the PRI; Juan de Dios Pontigo Loyola, executive secretary of the Public Security Council in the previous period, with his political chief; Alejandro Enciso Arellano, Fayad’s former private secretary; Citlali Jaramillo Ramírez, first secretary of the Comptroller’s Office in the term of the former governor; Michelle Calderón Ramírez, former deputy coordinator for Persons with Disabilities Affairs at the CDE PRI, and Rocío Sosa Jiménez, former municipal president of Acaxochitlán.
When announcing their withdrawal from the party, they recognized that their decision was due to confrontations with the national leadership, which in the past local electoral process left a public discussion between Omar Fayad and “Alito” Moreno for the gubernatorial candidacy.
After the appointment of Carolina Viggiano – via the National Action Party (PAN), in an alliance that also included the PRD – the then head of the Executive accused them of violating the statutes for the nomination, which, he claimed, was through the CDE, in which he had a majority of delegates plus the managerial support that today accompanies him in his resignation. Moreno Cárdenas replied that he was seeking to impose a candidate destined to lose, his former Secretary of Public Policy and current mayor of Mineral de la Reforma, Israel Félix Soto, in addition to suggesting that he had “surrendered on his knees” to the National Regeneration Movement. (Brunette).
“His disloyalty to the PRI that brought him to power was evidenced by surrendering on his knees to the Morena government,” he accused in that open confrontation, which later culminated in a supposed reconciliation, prior to the vote in which the PRI lost two to one, 61 against 31 percent of the votes.
Valera Piedras, who also serves as president of the Governing Board of the local Congress, said that the CEN’s tax forms have compromised the direction of the party. He anticipated that the PRI faction will disappear and they, who will be called deputies without a party, will continue as a common bloc.
