Front aspirants gain 58% of signatures through promoters and party structure

In the first stage of an internal process to elect the next presidential candidate of Mexico’s broad front, contenders must collect the signatures of 150,000 citizens spread across at least 17 entities. Aspirants can access this empathy through three different programs: Registration is done directly through the promoters or through the parties forming the coalition.

In contrast, the only two female senators vying for the presidential nomination Sochitel Galvez and Beatrice Paredes, They get the most sympathy directly from citizens.

The so-called “promoters”——Staff hired by the applicant to collect signatures— They collected 840,000 signatures; 392 signatures; that is, 33.5% of the total 2,504,937 signatures registered on the digital platform to support 11 presidential candidates and to build the 3 March) Citizens Register for Citizens Consultation Campaign.

Of these, 1,003,100,989 signatures (41.1% of the total) were registered directly by citizens themselves. According to a preliminary report released by researchers of the organizing committee on August 10, Jose Antonio Crespomember of the Observatory of the Opposition Front Citizens Accompanying Group.

The sponsors of the former chairman of the House Board of Directors collected 143,434 signatures, or 40 percent of the total of 358,735 signed by Creel. Another 100,327 were collected by PAN structures (28%) and 114,974 (32%) were registered directly by citizens.

Weeding out frontline applicants

Peredistas Miguel Angel Mancella and Silvano Aureoles Through the large-scale registration by the promoters and the support of the Pearl River Delta structure, they received the highest percentage of sympathy.

Mansella, the former head of government in Mexico City, obtained 148,000 of his 195,000 signatures (75.7%) through these promoters. While 31,000 (16%) were received through the PRD structure, only 15,000 (8%) were eligible for Citizen’s Organic Compassion.

The former governor of Michoacán, Silvano Aureoles, repeated the same formula: out of the 288,090 citizen support registered on the digital platform, 68.1% corresponded to the work done by the promoter team, equivalent to 196,235 signatures. . 19.52% of signatures were collected via PRD, and the remaining 12.3% of signatures were collected via PRD without intermediaries.

Jorge Luis Preciado, One applicant, who resigned before the results of the first screening, decrying anomalies in the process, garnered 92.6% of its sponsor’s 14,729 signatures.

The National Action Party member from the state of Colima challenged the electoral court and resigned after 29 years of fighting in the National Action Party due to differences of opinion, It collected almost 536 signatures directly from the public.

although, Francisco García Cabeza DwarcaThe former governor of Tamaulipas from 2016 to 2022, who did not travel to the states because of organized crime charges, is another applicant who has relied largely on paid promoters.

Of the 195,000,548 pieces of civic support collected by the website, 86.7% were registered by promoters, equivalent to 169,000,593 pieces; 11% corresponded to direct sympathy; and the remaining 2.3% were provided by the PAN structure.

Last week, when the results of the first screening were announced, members of the organizing committee reported that some 600,000 of the 2.5 million records on the digital platform had been removed as a result of various irregularities discovered.

Marco Baños, member of the Broad Front organizing committee, explained that three forms of abnormal support were detected in the digital registration system: Incorrect voter codes; illegible photos and records of members of other political parties such as Morena, PVEM, PT, and MC.

Unlike the other five candidates, Xochitel Galvez and Beatriz Paredes are the candidates with the highest percentage of direct support from citizens. The two senators received 61.2% of the total support of 1003100989 without intermediaries.

Hochitel GalvezThe National Action Party MP, the leader of citizens’ preferences, was the candidate with the most civic support and the highest percentage of direct sympathy out of the 11 participants in the Broad Front’s first phase internal competition.

Of the 554,000 699 signatures collected by the digital platform, 436,000 (78.7%) were obtained directly; that is, citizens organically entered and supported the site. 16.2% of the signatures came from the PAN structure, leaving only 5% through sponsor support.

Beatrice Wall, Former Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) National Leaders received 451,934 signatures, of which more than 195,000; the PRI structure helped it collect 174,962 signatures (38.7%), of which 81,365 signatures (18%) came from promoters.

Enrique de la MadridThe son of former president Miguel de la Madrid and former tourism minister, was the only one of 11 applicants to receive the highest percentage of civic support through his own party structure.

Of the 344,729 signatures collected on digital platforms in the first phase of the internal competition, 43.71% were obtained with the support of the PRI; 39.31% were directly supported; and the remaining 16.9% were obtained through the support of the promoters.

Castro explained that the organizing committee refused to provide Mancella and Aureoles with a detailed report on civic support, which had been verified and invalidated. What is it that makes the Pearl River Delta still dissatisfied? However, they still put pressure on the Organizing Committee of the Grand Front.