Ricardo Monreal’s proposals to “level the playing field” in Morena’s presidential team

Although he knows the presidential aspirations of the leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the Chamber of Senators Ricardo Monreal Avilahis name was continually excluded from the list of caps and in which the three strongest of the cherry appeared: Claudia Sheinbaum, Marcelo Ebrard and Adán Augusto López.

It was only on January 15 that Mario Delgadonational leader of Morena, officially included Monreal Ávila among the possible candidates to represent Morena in the 2024 elections. An act that the also president of the Political Coordination Council (Jucopo) thanked Delgado Carrillo in a letter, despite the climax — and regret — “their late incorporation” into the process.

“With the same sincerity, I regret my late integration into a process that has been underway for 18 months,” he said in his letter, followed by the deployment of four proposals guarantee “participation, inclusiveness and transparency” in the selection process of the Morena candidate for 2024.

The first point of his approach proposes to consider the opinions of the candidates who will seek to carry the flag of National Regeneration during the presidential race next year: a consensual agreement.

In other words, explained Monreal, the judgment of the potential candidates should be taken into account – as well as the management bodies and the foreseen authorities – for the definition of the terms, the deadlines and the main rules of the appeal, such as that the adequate duration to resign from their current functions, the resolution of doubts and controversies, etc.

Secondly, the president of Jucopo recommended the creation of a primary election of the candidate on the basis the opinions of activism and its sympathizers; this, prior to carrying out the survey that Morena’s statutes recognize as the main method of selection. With that, he advocated the proposed methodology, noting that it might even outperform “the best surveys”.

“A primary is a superior source of legitimacy to any demoscopic cabinet exercise, since even the best polls (those that aren’t rigged) can’t replace the people or the reality.”

And under the same tenor of the investigations, the third approach of Monreal Ávila aims to seek impartiality of the possible investigation in the event of a determination that it is impossible to hold a primary election (due to cost or risk of interference from other political forces).

Given this assumption, argued the Morenista, it could be implemented a battery of five soundings — three principals and two mirrors — with a single question: “Who do you want Morena’s candidate for the presidency of the Republic to be?” “.

In the meantime, he also offered choose five prestigious polling houses based on a shortlist, in which ten of them would be included: “The methodology would be approved by academic institutions and professional associations of public opinion research agencies.” In this way, the academic also asserted, conflicts of interest will be avoided product “when the party is judge and party in the application of polls to select” the candidates.

Finally, the last proposal of the former governor of Zacatecas refers to the realization regional debates between the candidates, regardless of the method to be used for the selection of the presidential candidacy, animated by the president of Morenathat’s to say, Mario Delgado.

It is proposed that these meetings be broadcast by the news channels of the movement and be held in each of the five territorial electoral constituencies.