2024-07-07 15:08:25
A group of more than 250 militants of the ATamong which former governors and former leaders stand out, demanded the resignation of their current national president, Alejandro Moreno Cardenasalias Alito.
In a public statement, they warned that they disagree with their possible reelection, which will be analyzed in an assembly of the National Council in the coming days.
“In this year’s elections, the Institutional Revolutionary Party obtained the worst results in its history, both in terms of votes obtained and positions held. What happened in 2024 meant the end of an era of democratic transition and alternations that began in 1997, as well as the advent of a deep crisis in the political party system, which will have to find new formulas to participate in and enrich the necessary democratic life of our country,” the document states.
Among the signatories are the former president of the AT, EEnrique Ochoa, Dulce Maria Sauri and Pedro Joaquin Coldwellas well as Enrique de la Madrid and the former presidential candidate, Francisco Labastida.
The PRI group proposes that an interim leadership be appointed and the Institutional Revolutionary Party be reconsidered.
Alejandro Moreno requested leave from the governorship of Campeche to assume the leadership of the PRI for the period from 2019 to 2023, but due to an agreement of the National Council his term was extended until after this year’s elections.
This Sunday, it is expected that the PRI Political Council hold a national assembly in which an agreement to renew the leadership would be discussed, in which process Alejandro Moreno could participate and be re-elected for up to two terms, that is, until 2032, if these changes are approved.
The current leader of the PRI has several open investigations for alleged illicit enrichment, as well as the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) denounced its administration in Campeche for the alleged embezzlement of more than 2 billion pesos, which occurred when he was governor of Campeche.
Alito Moreno was included by the tricolor party in the first place of the plurinominal lists Senate, so your arrival is assured Upper House from 1st September.
Prior to the arrival of Moreno al AT, This party was the leading force in the country, as it governed 15 states, had the majority of legislators and senators, as well as control of the majority of local congresses.
After five years of the current leadership, the AT It only governs in two entities and in the next integration of the Chamber of Deputies it could be left with fewer deputies than the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico.
“Bad joke,” says Beltrones
The senator elected for Sonora and former leader of the PRI, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, indicated that he will not attend the next National Assembly and described the re-election of the leaders as a bad joke, since it goes against the principles of the party.
He asserted that the party is still in time to avoid further ruptures, because “it is definitely a terrible idea, which even seems like a bad joke, to address such a critical situation for the PRI with a measure that violates the party’s position.”up to its history of nearly 100 years based on an anti-reelection movement that gave rise to it.”
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2024-07-07 15:08:25