The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) defined its nine candidates for governorships for 2024 early this Saturday, including that of Mexico City, where it appointed the popular mayor of Iztapalapa, Clara Brugada, amid tensions to comply with the gender parity.
The party thus concluded its process to elect the candidates who will fight for the governorships of Yucatán, Tabasco, Puebla, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Chiapas, Veracruz, Morelos and the Mexican capital, where 7 men won the polls, but three were replaced by women.
Morena thus met the gender parity criteria issued by the National Electoral Institute (INE), in which it asked the parties to nominate five women and four men in total for next year’s elections.
García Harfuch remains on the road
After more than 16 hours of meeting, the party leader announced that Clara Brugada, the popular mayor of Iztapalapa, the most populated internal district of Mexico City with almost 1.8 million inhabitants, would be the candidate for governor of the country’s capital. .
Brugada thus left behind the former head of the capital’s police, Omar García Harfuch, known for surviving an organized crime attack in 2020 and who has been involved in controversy for his alleged responsibility in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.
Although García Harfuch won the popular poll to be the candidate with 40.5% of the preferences, the party decided to give the place to the mayor of Iztapalapawho was the second best positioned in the survey, to meet the INE criteria.
Prior to Brugada’s appointment, Morena’s leadership had announced:
- Joaquín Díaz for Yucatán,
- Javier May for Tabasco,
- Carlos Lomelí for Jalisco,
- Alejandro Armenta for Puebla,
- Ricardo Sheffield for Guanajuato and
- Eduardo Ramírez for Chiapas.
While for Veracruz he chose Rocío Nahle and for Morelos to Margarita Gonzálezwhich left a clear imbalance between men and women candidates.
The pre-candidates for the governorships for Morena toured their respective entities for more than a month and were chosen through citizen surveys to compete for the position against their adversaries from the Broad Front for Mexico, made up of the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party. (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD); and Citizen Movement.
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