The presidential candidates of Morena measure support and turn to the state campaign on June 5

Every campaign is a stage and the elections to be held in six states on May 5 coincide with a new stage in the long-distance race of the candidates to succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

This weekend, in the final stretch of that electoral process, some of the favorite candidates to take over from the president of Mexico in 2024 have turned to territorial tours, covering the heads of Morena's list.

Contact with the grassroots has always been a way of measuring internal support, and this has been done by three front-line leaders: Claudia Sheinbaum, Marcelo Ebrard and Adán Augusto López.

About 12 million Mexicans are called to elect their new governors within two weeks.

The renewal of the administrations of Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Aguascalientes, Tamaulipas and Durango supposes a vote of less scope than that of a year ago.

However, the appointment is important to define the balance between the ruling movement, which alone or with its allies already governs in 18 states and seeks to expand its power, and the opposition alliance of the PRI, the PAN and the PRD, which was very affected. after the defeat of the 2018 presidential elections and puts his resistance to the test.

The head of the Government of Mexico City traveled to Oaxaca on Saturday and to Tamaulipas this Sunday to support the campaigns of the candidates Salomón Jara and Américo Villarreal.

For this, she requested permission or "discount of the day" as the highest authority in the capital, leaving the Secretary of Government, Martí Batres, and her team in charge.

From the northern state she has reiterated that the country is ready to have a female president “Why can't women aspire not only to popularly elected positions, but to develop in the way they want with the freedom they want?

I think that women are prepared for anything and the country too.

It is something that should not even be asked, ”she has stated in a statement to the media.

The Secretary of Foreign Relations first traveled to Aguascalientes to accompany Nora Ruvalcaba and this Sunday he flew to Cancun, in Quintana Roo, to join the acts of Mara Lezama.

The foreign minister, immersed in recent days in the negotiations with the United States prior to Mexico's participation in the Summit of the Americas, has also hung up his institutional suit for a few hours to wear the shirt of the leader of the Fourth Transformation, López's project Workshop.

Ebrard was acclaimed at the beginning of May shouting "president, president" during an act in Hidalgo and is, along with Sheinbaum, the best positioned candidate, according to opinion studies, which always include the names of the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López , and the head of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.

The first began to appear in the pools, the so-called "corcholata club", months ago.

Former governor of Tabasco, the state of the president, he is one of the key men for López Obrador both in the Executive and in the ranks of the party.

This weekend he visited Hidalgo to support candidate Julio Menchaca and was also received with cheers.

There are those in Morena who see in him a balance between the profiles of Sheinbaum and Ebrard, although his biggest obstacle is his limited public projection.

Monreal, a veteran legislator, stayed in Mexico City to close an exhibition about his homeland, Zacatecas, in the old Senate building.

He warned that he will not return until 2030, a nod to the next six-year term, but before that he posted a video on his social networks in which he criticizes the internal selection process.

All these high officials of the ruling party have expressed their desire to participate, but the senator maintains that the president has preemptively excluded him from the race and therefore has lamented the internal friction.

“The anticipated campaigns here and in any country when they are unleashed and developed early generate resentment either within the parties that postulate them or within the system.

It was a political rule located in orthodoxy: the president or the prime minister had to put up with it, it had to last the right time so that no vicissitude or strange movement occurred that caused instability in the government or in the economy, ”he indicated. .

“Today President López Obrador, since June of last year, promoted momentum and uncovered a series of people, all members of his cabinet, to succeed him.

What he called the corcholata club, which in his opinion should succeed him.

However, this anticipation can cause fissures within those of us who aspire to this open and democratic process”,

He has warned before speaking of "disqualifications, insults or diatribes."

“We hope that this does not translate into physical actions to the detriment of some of the applicants that we legitimately wish to contend with.

It was untimely, from my point of view.

Now we have to try to calm things down, ”she added in reference to the outbursts of some supporters.

López Obrador has assured that he chose to advance the internal race precisely to avoid speculation and maintains that the practice of uncovering is over.

has added in reference to the outbursts of some supporters.

López Obrador has assured that he chose to advance the internal race precisely to avoid speculation and maintains that the practice of uncovering is over.

has added in reference to the outbursts of some supporters.

López Obrador has assured that he chose to advance the internal race precisely to avoid speculation and maintains that the practice of uncovering is over.

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