Two internal points that were already known within the party and have nothing to do with the reason most attendees were there: the definition of candidacies. This way, the 4T expects the party leadership to call a new national council to move forward with details not revealed this weekend or provide the information through another internal mechanism that will allow the steps to be determined for figures aspiring to compete for the thousands of positions at stake in next year's elections. This is the case, for example, for deputies or senators aspiring to a governorship and who are, for now, still without new definitions. This Saturday, Morena's leadership held a new session of its National Council. This is due, according to official sources, to a series of differences that arose between the president of Morena, Luisa María Alcalde, and Head of State Claudia Sheinbaum. That is, the deadlines, registration days, and various dates of the selection process so that each official figure can begin to know what their near future will be, and among other things, when they should request a leave of absence or resign from their current position if they wish to compete for another office. The National Council held by Morena's leadership this weekend left the best repercussions within the party. This includes, for example, a series of internal rules that each figure aspiring to an office in 2027 must respect. According to this explanation, the party leader would have handed over the roadmap and details of the calls for the different internal disputes to the head of state, but the draft would not have received her approval. 'Nothing important was voted on,' a person with access to the National Palace, where the day was followed in detail, assured LPO. The most important thing the party leadership approved were the 'general criteria' of the internal process that will define next year's elections. As a result of this, the former secretary of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government would have left without progress in the definitions, but with the party call launched, which made it necessary to approve new provisions that, in essence, do not provide greater details about what will happen in 2027. This way, the only thing Morena has defined is that on June 22 it will reveal the people who will compete for the 17 states at stake; on August 3 the federal districts; on September 21 the mayoralties and on November 8 the local deputy positions. However, the details that each of these figures must follow to achieve a candidacy, that is, the day of registrations, the duration of the internal positioning, or when the surveys that will be used to define said positions will be conducted, are still not confirmed. Morena anticipates selection of pre-candidates for governorships in June. To cope with the lack of definitions experienced this weekend, Morena's leadership also approved two other points that, in essence, also reveal nothing new. The second was the 'organizational strategy of the municipal councils' of the party, which will not have electoral functions or functions for defining candidacies. The problem, recognize various sources who were present in the meetings held in Mexico City, is that the summit achieved little progress in the electoral assembly for next year's elections, as was planned at first. Among them, for example, the prohibition of using billboards to promote their image, holding early campaign acts, using public resources, disqualifying or attacking other people aspiring to the same position, and 'giving away crumbs' to the population. Tension in SLP: Gallardo fears that Alcalde will postulate the Rodríguez sisters against his wife. The problem, recognize various sources, is that this statement does not represent significant progress for the 2027 elections because they are norms that exceed the party and are regulated by electoral authorities at the federal level. The results achieved this weekend clash, at the same time, with the expectations that existed beforehand because important sectors of the 4T expected that the details of the calls to compete for the different candidacies would be confirmed. One of them was the reaffirmation of the 'total support for President Claudia Sheinbaum before the increasingly belligerent president of the United States, Donald Trump'.
Internal Disagreements in Morena Hinder Candidate Definition
Morena's leadership held a national council but failed to make significant progress in defining the rules and deadlines for internal elections. Disagreements arose between the party president, Luisa María Alcalde, and President Claudia Sheinbaum, leading to a lack of specifics for candidates in the 2027 elections. The party only approved the dates for announcing candidate lists, but not the details of the selection process.