Morena nominated eight women for the same number of governorships, but there were three who failed: Mónica Rangel, in San Luis Potosí; Clara Luz Flores, in Nuevo León, and Celia Maya, in Querétaro.
His was, above all, labor of sacrifice, due to the weak electoral preference for the ruling party in the northeast of the country. And without demerit of their trajectories – remarkable in their fields of specialty – the design of their campaigns had the popularity of President AMLO as the main underpinning.
For the renewal of the six governorships in 2022, the party leadership headed by Mario Delgado is committed to nominating three women. But the polls will not necessarily be the instrument to define where they will launch candidates. And it is that in Aguascalientes, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas there would be powerful reasons to reserve the decision to higher authorities.
Five months ago, the 11 mayoralties and 25 seats of the Aguascalientes Congress were renewed. Morena and his allies obtained just 25% of the state vote, which allowed the triumph in three municipal presidencies and two districts.
In Jesús María, a municipality near the hydro-warm capital, Morena competed in alliance with Nueva Alianza and the PT. And his candidate, Karla Arely Espinoza Esparza, raised 28% of the vote; although he came in second place, he was able to reach a seat on the council.
It was Espinoza Esparza’s second campaign for mayor of his native municipality. Her first time, three years ago, was as a standard-bearer for the Free Party. Then she left – prompted by her ex-husband, the construction businessman Fernando Camarena – conducting a newscast on the local TV Azteca station. Her career in electronic media began in 2009 as the co-host of an entertainment magazine broadcast on Channel 6 of the state television.
Since the PAN won the governorship in 2003, Aguascalientes has been bipartisan. Until 2018, that Morena obtained her first triumphs. Placed as the second force, the ruling party would designate the current councilor of Jesús María as its standard-bearer, through the efforts of the ex-governor of Zacatecas, Ricardo Monreal Ávila.
Quid pro quo. The leader of the Moreno party in the Senate promotes the nomination of his colleague José Ramón Enríquez for Durango, one of the three entities – along with Hidalgo and Oaxaca – where the candidacy would be defined by weighing the attributes of the candidates. The also former mayor of the capital widely surpasses in the polls the current mayor of Gómez Palacio, Marina Vitela Rodríguez, who has just started her three-year term.
Senators Susana Harp, from Oaxaca, and Freyda Marybel Villegas, in Quintana Roo, are also solidly positioned, but their chances are tied to the decision of the party leadership. In Tamaulipas, not long ago, Mario Delgado had promised that the nomination would fall to a woman, but the most recent measurements suggest that the best positioned – the former mayor of Reynosa, Maki Ortiz – would inexorably follow the path of Clara Luz Flores in Nuevo León .
Next year, Morena could bring another three women to the state executives, but a bad sign would be the appointment if it fell on Karla Espinoza. And it is that in Aguascalientes, the most profiled candidate is the former mayor of the capital, Tere Jiménez, current federal deputy PAN.
This year, in the elections concurrent with the federal election, 15 governorships were renewed. And six women were elected, among them the PAN member, Maru Campos, from Chihuahua.
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