The presidential spell —Roberto Rock dixit— reappeared in state voting, although its effects were moderate in Aguascalientes, Durango and Tamaulipas. Morena did not sweep and Mario Delgado broke his promise to add six governorships to the official record.
There remains, battered, his word. The best Morenoist candidate was Nora Ruvalcaba, in Aguascalientes, but the worst strategy also occurred there, where the CEN of the icing party decided to go to the race without allies.
Her work as a teacher in the hydro-warm capital led her, two decades ago, to the PRD ranks; She is the founder of Morena, a state leader of the party and a local deputy, during the López Obrador six-year term she served as a high-ranking official of Indep and a super delegate in the entity. For the first time in its history, the left obtained 35% of the votes in one of the territories where the PAN has the greatest strength.
Tere Jiménez, the winner of the elections, won the PAN nomination before receiving the support of the leadership of the PAN and the PRD, which at the end of the campaigns was definitive in dispelling the ghosts of a post-election conflict.
A bad strategy and the worst candidate prevented Morena from conquering the governorship of Durango, where the 39 mayors were also elected. The morenista failure is extensive to the capital, Gómez Palacio and Ciudad Lerdo —the three most important municipalities in the entity—, which was won by the PAN-PRI-PRD coalition.
The morenista standard-bearer, Alma Marina Vitela, will have to put an end to two decades of political career. The last five, in Morena. From San Lázaro to the mayor’s office of Gómez Palacio, she requested a license from that position to compete in the internal process to define the candidate. The CEN polls put Senators Alejandro González Yáñez and José Ramón Enríquez in the lead; the adjustment by gender compensated for the parity in the candidacies, but broke the morenismo in the entity.
Vitela assumed that the support of the National Palace was absolute and undertook the campaign without adding the groups that were left out of the candidacies. The CEN envoys to support her —Ignacio Mier, in the first instance— could never overcome the rebellious temperament of the candidate, who concentrated her efforts in the lagoon municipalities and left the promotion of the vote to González Yáñez, who was again defeated in the capital.
On the night of Sunday the 5th, without the support of the Morenista leadership, Alma Marina proclaimed her victory and that of the icing on the cake candidate for mayor of Gómez Palacio, Betzabé Martínez Arango; with advantages of more than five points. At the close of the PREP, both were defeated by double digits, despite the sponsorship of Mier —who served as a special delegate of the CEN— and the support of the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The dirty war promoted by his political opponents and the intimidating actions of the de facto powers are —in Vitela’s opinion— the main determinants of his defeat. His team seeks to gather the evidence that supports his challenge before the jurisdictional authorities; the margin —of 15 points— does not imply a closed result, but the morenistas allege inequity in the contest.
Durango will have former PRI mayor Esteban Villegas as governor. Aguascalientes will have former mayor Tere Jiménez as governor. In the breakdown of the data, in the National Palace they are aware of the undeniable growth in the pro-Panist vote and popular discontent, the worrying thing for the 4T is that the victories of Va por México in Aguascalientes and Durango were more than enough and give way to compete in the two remaining elections of the six-year term. The blue and white is consolidated as the spearhead of the opposition alliance, as it was a complicated day for all the political institutes opposed to the workshop, especially for the Citizen Movement, which alone was erased from the six states.
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