Aspirants to the presidency of Mexico by the ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena)they begin their political tours this Monday towards the definition of the candidate of the ruling party for the 2024 elections.
The former head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaumthe former chancellor, Marcelo Ebrardthe former Secretary of the Interior, Adam Augusto Lopezand the licensed senator and coordinator of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.
Besides, The movement founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2011 and recognized as a party in 2014 defined that it will participate in the presidential elections next year in alliance with the Labor Parties (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM).
These political forces enlisted the licensed deputy, Gerardo Fernandezby the PT, and the licensed senator Manuel Velascoof the PVEM.
They all seek to be the successor of President López Obrador and give continuity to his government project called the “fourth transformation.”
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For the internal process to define the successor to López Obrador, The party agreed that this Monday, June 19, all the applicants will begin their tours that will last until August 27.
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For this, the applicants made their previous registration in which they accepted basic rules to ensure a contest on equal terms, such as that the applicants must leave their public positions, not use too many resources and that public servants do not intervene in their campaigns, as well as as to represent the principles of the “fourth transformation”.
At the end of the political tours, Morena will begin a period of surveys to define the best presidential candidate of the ruling party on September 3making the results known on the sixth day of the same month.
Some analysts consulted by EFE have considered that the biggest challenge of this internal process of the ruling Morena party towards the election of the successor to López Obrador will be to maintain unity.
Each of the participants in this process will receive 5 million pesos to finance their tours.except Adán Augusto López, who rejected Morena’s financial support.
Applicants start tours
The schedules of the applicants have not been fully disclosed by their teams and some have stated that the places where they will start their tours will be surprising. However, some have already defined their first steps through the Mexican territory, such as Sheinbaum, who will visit Oaxaca.
It is estimated to start at 4:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. GMT) at the Fountain of the Eight Regions and arrive at the public square in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico.
In this same entity, the PT militant, Fernández, will also be present, who will be signing books of his authorship in the zócalo of the capital of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Former Secretary of State López, who will visit Puerto Vallarta, in the central state of Jalisco, will be seen in the center of the country.
The former official will meet with businessmen, will attend the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and will have an event in a public square in the state, also located in the Mexican Bajío.
The former coordinator of the parliamentary bench of Morena, Monreal, indicated that he will begin his work in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, which he directed between 2014 and 2017.
For his part, former Foreign Minister Ebrard indicated on his social networks that the start of his tour of the country will take place in a surprising place, while the also former governor of Chiapas, Velasco, has not made public the place where his political strategy will start. .
AMLO promises not to interfere in campaigns
President López Obrador promised that he will not intervene in the election of the presidential candidate of his Morena party, although he himself has defined the method of his partisan statutes.
There will be no finger,” said the president during his morning press conference from the National Palace.
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