Preliminary data shows that Sol Azteca would have a vote of less than 3 percent in Hidalgo, Durango, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas. If it is confirmed that the party failed to exceed this threshold established by law, it would no longer receive state prerogatives.
Mexico City, June 6 (However).– Jesus Zambrano Grijlavanational leader of Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), has insisted over and over again that the Aztec Sun will not go out, but will live for a while. The truth is that with each electoral process, this political force founded 33 years ago fades. By 2021, for example, he had had a voting less than 3 percent in 15 entities, losing their right to receive state prerogatives, and after the electoral process this Sunday their presence in more states begins to fade.
The data provided by Preliminary Election Results Programs (PREP) of the six entities that renewed their governorships this June 5 show that in Hidalgo got 2.5199 percent of the vote, in Durango —where the PRI national leader Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas accompanied yesterday—, 2.7689 percent; in Quintana Roo -where the standard-bearer, Laura Fernández Piña, came from their ranks- records 2.9292 percentand in Tamaulipas 1.4732 percent.
The General Law of Political Parties establishes a minimum of 3 percent of the vote for national and local parties to maintain their registration. At the federal level, the PRD maintains its registration, but at the local level, by having a vote below this percentage, it will lose the resources that the states give to the parties.
Already last year, it had a lower vote in the renewal of the Congresses of Durango and Tamaulipas, entities that yesterday elected a new state government, but it also had no local presence in Baja California, Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima. , Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Sinaloa, with a threshold of less than 3 percent.
“National political parties have, because they are national, the right to participate in all local and federal elections, they lose their registration when they do not have 3 percent of the vote in a federal election, then they do lose their registration and their rights as political parties. nationals. Now, if this happens in a local election, the party does not lose its registration because it continues to be an important political party at the national level, what does happen is that they lose the prerogatives that are given to them at the local level, the resources and all the prerogatives that it may have at the local level“explained the former electoral counselor in an interview Arturo Sanchez Gutierrez, on the scenario that the PRD now faces.
Sánchez Gutiérrez, also a researcher at the School of Social Sciences and Government at Tec de Monterrey, stated that it does not matter what is voted for in a local election, regardless of whether it is Congress or not, “if you do not get three percent, you lose your prerogatives as a political party at the local level, but you maintain your prerogatives at the federal level and the right to continue participating at the local level” in subsequent local electoral processes.
THE DECLINE OF THE PRD
In its three decades of political life, the PRD controlled Mexico City and ruled Zacatecas, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, and Baja California Sur at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. But since the signing of the Pact for Mexico in December 2012 with the Government of Enrique Peña Nieto, and now without its founding structure, some 430 thousand militants to date and has been losing Chiapas (2012), Guerrero (2014), Mexico City (2018), Morelos (2018), Tabasco (2018), Puebla (2018, which won in alliance with the PAN), Nayarit (2021 , which also won in alliance with PAN) and Michoacán (2021).
In his former stronghold, the Mexican capital, in 2021 he lost the last two mayorships he governed, Coyoacán and Venustiano Carranza. Currently, recharged in the political-electoral alliance of Va por México (PRI-PAN-PRD), he has a presence in Guanajuato; in eight of the mayor’s offices of the Mexican capital. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Aztec Sun reached 15 seats, the lowest number in its entire history, and in the Senate it only has three senators, among them, the former head of government Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa.
“They said that we were already dead, here we are alive, strong,” Zambrano assured during the recent rally for the 33rd anniversary of the PRD, where he took the opportunity to criticize the “authoritarianism” of this “false Fourth Transformation.”
“You are not going to end the PRD. We are not afraid of you, Andrés Manuel [López Obrador]”, he shouted between the noise of those present at the Monument to the Revolution. “There is PRD for a long time.”
But the numbers reflect another reality. Yesterday, in all the electoral processes, the PRD had 94 thousand 66 votes, not a fifth of those obtained by Morena in Oaxaca and Hidalgo, for example, and behind the 159 thousand 692 votes that the icing party obtained by itself in Quintana Roo, where the Aztec Sun placed its militant Laura Fernández Piña as candidate for the governorship of Quintana Roo, who, according to the preliminary results, only reached 16.1379 percent of the votes, against the 56.4073 percent reached by Maria Elena Hermelinda Lezama Espinosa, from Morena.
Zambrano did not close the day there, but rather celebrated the victory of the PRI Esteban Villegas in Durango, the only one of the two won by the coalition. There he said that the victory “was not easy and was due to the work and effort” of the alliance’s militancies and there he also announced that “we also won, resoundingly, the capital, and we won most of the municipalities of the state: La Laguna, Lerdo and Gómez Palacio, as well as most of the main municipalities of the state. A victory that contrasts with the 2.5199 percent of the vote reached in this entity by the PRD, according to official figures, one of the most recent setbacks suffered by the party that was once placed as the second force in the country.
Obed Rosas
He has a degree in Communication and Journalism from the FES Aragón of the UNAM. He also studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.