Politics: New Morena leadership, with Sheinbaum increasingly fenced in by AMLO and a highly disparate party
A week ago, 3,000 delegates to a Morena party congress were called upon to raise their hands to endorse a new national executive committee, whose composition the national leadership only read out immediately before the seemingly unanimous vote. The new leadership is heavily stacked with AMLO loyalists, as is at least half of Claudia Sheinbaum’s new cabinet and the heads of both chambers of Congress, leaving the new president politically corralled.
Even if she had been free to make her own choices, she is inescapably dependent on López Obrador’s support as the vast majority of ostensibly Morena-affiliated office holders were drawn from the PRI, PRD, MC, PAN and allied minor parties; only three out of 24 state governors are from Morena origin. They come from radically disparate beliefs and traditions, but all are aware that they are in office thanks to one man: López Obrador.
The great void in this project are the ideological and programmatic definitions that would give Morena a clear profile around an idea and a project for the country. In the coming years Morena faces the challenge of building an institutionality, something it cannot achieve easily or anytime soon—all the more so considering that it is not even clear that it wants to undertake such an effort, leaving considerable uncertainty as to what is to become of the party.
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