Alfredo del Mazo Maza becomes the last PRI member to rule the state of Mexico after 94 years of PRI hegemony, where a family scion led the entity for decades, one of the most populous and richest in the country But this is also one of them. Further corruption arose amid the efforts of his “political sons”, some of whom rose to the presidency of the republic.
Teacher Delfina, as most of her Texcocan neighbors know her, and the daughter of a mason father and seamstress mother, would become the first governor of the State of Mexico under the banner of Murray.
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The arrival of the Morenistas in Toluca ended the influence of the Atlacomulco group, which gave the PRI and the state some of the most influential names in Mexican politics in the 20th and 21st centuries: Isidro Fabela, Alfredo del Mazo Vélez, Gustavo Baz Prada, Adolfo López Mateos , Carlos Hanke González, Alfredo del Mazo González and Enrique Peña Nieto, among others, who now form part of a gallery of PRI members who kept the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) strong for more than nine decades and that they will continue to serve today in 2024. Losing a vital unit for the U.S. presidential elections.
“Alfredo del Mazo handed over the square to Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His entire government remained more in the service of the President than in the composition of his party and his candidate. Del Mazo was lukewarm and today he handed over the State of Mexico to Delfina. It is ironic because AMLO and Delfina always told that he stole the last election”, concluded a PRI sympathizer in Coacalco, who decided to cast a “punishment vote” against the PRI and voted for Morena.
Without big surprises, the Morenistas, promoted by PT and PVEM, fulfilled all predictions and snatched Alejandra del Moral from the Tonight Wa Por México (Pan-PRI-PRD) coalition, the most important stronghold for PRI members and ended Sharpening the presence of this party on the electoral map, which raises more doubts than certainty about its path to the presidential election.
According to data from the Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico (IEEM), in the first contest Delfina Gómez participated as a candidate in 2017, she received 871,658 votes, i.e. 31.86% of the election.
In the presidential election the following year, Andrés Manuel López Obrador managed to add about 4.3 million votes in the State of Mexico.
“Although today the PRI officially loses one of its most important strongholds in the elections, it is only a reflection of something that was spreading like cancer in the PRI structure in the unit. López Obrador, since he started his movement controlling the unit, winning votes, and today with the help of Delfina Gómez, they have managed to ensure a critical condition for the continuation of their movement,” says Saul Farias, political analyst forbes mexico,
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Facing next year’s federal elections, the fact that Morena and its political allies, PT and PVEM, won today’s election is extremely relevant, as it reveals citizens’ intention to vote for 2024 .
“If nothing extraordinary happens, with this result in the State of Mexico, which has the largest census in the republic and its nominal list, Murray and company have a high chance of retaining the presidency,” said Guadalupe, a political Mendez says analyst.
“It should also be taken into account that due to the number of voters and population, the fact that Murray can control the resources of the State of Mexico will be important in his participation in next year’s elections,” he said.
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