Claudia Salazar, Martha Martínez and Mayolo López/ Reforma Agency
Friday, January 13, 2023 | 07:08
CDMX.- After Va por México made official that the PAN will have a hand in the 2024 presidential candidacy, the Unid@s group of organizations demanded to take into account the opinion of the citizenry in the selection of the alliance candidate.
Yesterday, the leaders of the PAN, PRI and PRD, Marko Cortés, Alejandro Moreno and Jesús Zambrano, resumed their coalition, announced that they would go together in the elections of Coahuila and Edomex, where the tricolors will nominate the candidate, and announced that the panismo will have the candidacy of Head of Government in CDMX and hand in the presidential election of 2024.
“The organizations that make up Unid@s celebrate the coalition announcement made by the PAN, PRI, and PRD for the 2023 elections in the State of Mexico and Coahuila,” and for the 2024 presidential and local elections, the organization said.
“It seems essential to us that the coalition parties take into account the opinion of the citizenry (by 2024). These candidacies should not be the product of leadership arrangements, they must be legitimized in the widest possible way,” the group formed by the National Civic Front, Citizen Power, Yes for Mexico, Mexico Civil Society, Unite Mexico and United for Mexico.
PAN offers to include external applicants
The PAN leadership offered yesterday to include candidates from other parties and without partisan militancy in the process to define the candidate of the Va por México alliance for President in 2024, but without yet specifying how it will be chosen.
While the PRD urged consensus on a method that includes the proposals of civil society to define the standard-bearer, the PRI trusted that there will be a democratic process that satisfies everyone.
PAN member Marko Cortés and PRI member Alejandro Moreno announced yesterday the agreement for Acción Nacional to be the party in charge of defining the presidential and government candidacies of Mexico City, in reciprocity with which the tricolor will be responsible for determining those of Coahuila and the State of Mexico in 2023.
In an interview, Cortés said that with the agreement between the PAN and PRI the bases of the triumphs for 2023 and 2024 are laid.
Although it is already outlined that the PRI candidates will go to the State of Mexico and Coahuila, the PAN member said that in all cases “any” citizen may participate, with or without partisan militancy.
“Any person from civil society, looking for very competitive profiles, who can grow in electoral preference and who can go out to win and also, who can go out to fulfill the mandate of a coalition government and with an agreed platform of hand in hand with civil society.
“What we have agreed is also to call on all the other opposition parties, all the other groups in society, to join in this great agreement, in this transcendental agreement for Mexico, so that in this way we can all build together and, then yes, change Mexico,” he said.
The PAN member avoided answering if he moved to the PRD, and only said that the left is required in the alliance.
“Of course we are building, and with all the openness and with all the disposition, because Mexico requires a real left, Mexico requires a party that represents that sector of society, because in this Va por México project, we all fit and we are all necessary,” he said.
Moreno indicated that the agreement with the PAN on the 2024 candidacy does not mean that the blue and white will make the appointment, but that he will conduct the procedure and register the candidate, through a democratic and transparent process.
He said that this happened in 2022 with the candidacy processes in Hidalgo and Durango, in which the PAN led the processes, but PRI candidates were registered, when it was determined that Carolina Viggiano and Esteban Villegas were more competitive.
“They (the PAN) are going to promote a profile that does not necessarily have partisan militancy, they are going to have the participation of society.
That does not mean that whoever the candidate is should have partisan militancy, it can be from civil society or from parties,” he said.
According to the PRI member, the PRD will be promoting democratic processes so that there is an open election method and participation. “The PRD will be able to give its opinion,” he said.
Although everything points to the PRI candidate Manolo Jiménez being the candidate in Coahuila, the PRI leader indicated that an internal process is also taking place there with PRI, PAN and PRD candidates, so there is an opening towards 2024.
