Civil organizations led by the National Civic Front, opposed to the ruling party in Mexico, announced today the registration of the “We are Mexico” political party on the way to the 2027 elections, this with the aim of confronting the “authoritarianism” of the Government, which now receives “a soup of its own chocolate” from the American president, Donald Trump.
Other figures behind this new party include: Edmundo Jacobo, former executive secretary of the INE; the former senator Emilio Alvarez Icaza; the human rights defender, Mariclaire Acostaas well as a group of young people from different civil associations.
For her part, Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, one of the leaders of the movement, assured that the party was born due to the lack of a real opposition for the Government of the current President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.
According to the former member of the now-extinct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Sheinbaum is receiving from the United States “the treatment that she gives to the opponents.”
“Donald Trump is giving him a soup of his own chocolate. “He is imposing unilateral measures without dialogue with anyone, ignoring that here there are millions and millions of Mexicans who have the right to think differently and have the right to exist,” Acosta compared.
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At the presentation of the match, Jessica Castillo, 30, highlighted one of the mottos of the new political force: “Neither right nor left, just rights.”
“For decades we took for granted that democracy was a finished project, but in recent years authoritarianism took those dreams from our hands,” he warned.
Likewise, Acosta trusted that the party will be on the electoral ballot in 2027 and that in 2030 it will “remove the president from the presidency.” National Regeneration Movement (Morena)founded by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
“We are going to win. Morena emerged in 2015 and won in 2018. We will be in (20)27 and we will win in (20)30”held.
He pointed out that the party will be financed by the citizens themselves who make up a “very broad citizen network” that contributes small amounts monthly and affirmed that those who direct This new political formation will not be able to run for popularly elected positions or impose candidates.
“We are not going to put candidates here. “They are going to be primary elections and not raffles, nor details from Andrés (Manuel López Obrador)”, he pointed out.
On the other hand, he denounced the refusal of National Electoral Institute (INE) to provide them with their facilities for the event, which he attributed to alleged government control.
“They denied it to us, but they are not going to give it to us, we are going to get it from the people. For this reason, we have set ourselves the goal of playing two games in one. “We are going to have to do twice as much, yes, but they will not be able to prevent us from being on the ballot giving the political fight to this bad Government that we have,” he added.
Finally, he mentioned that neither the former presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, nor the former leader of the National Action Party (PAN), Gustavo Madero, will participate in the movement.
With information from EFE.
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