On Thursday, Ebrard Casaubón ruled out that he is going to run as an independent candidate to reach the Presidency of the Republic. The former Morenista contender clarified on his social networks that he will define his future on Monday.
Mexico City, September 8 (However).– The political future of Marcelo Ebrard Casaubbon it is in the air. After break up with brunetteafter report irregularities in the internal process of the party where she was victorious Claudia Sheinbaumthe former foreign minister assured that next Monday he will announce the steps to follow, while a survey by the newspaper Remodeling reveals that four out of 10 consider that you should “accept a position” in an eventual government of the former head of the capital’s government.
The survey was carried out nationwide this Thursday to 301 people, the newspaper detailed. 40 percent, therefore, prefer that he stay in Morena. A fifth of those surveyed, that is, 20 percent, want him to be a presidential candidate with Movimiento Ciudadano, the opposition party that has not yet revealed its process to choose a standard bearer for 2024.
Further back, 16 percent ask him to join the opposition Front, made up of the National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties. PRIAN has already chosen its candidate, PAN Senator Xóchitl Gálvez.
Another 16 percent surveyed answered that they do not know and the last eight percent chose another answer.
On Thursday, Ebrard Casaubón ruled out that he is going to run as an independent candidate to reach the Presidency of the Republic. The former Morenista contender clarified on his social networks that, despite not agreeing with the results, he will define his future on Monday.
“An independent candidacy has not been in my objective, I consider it is not the way to contribute to the future of Mexico that we long for,” he said.
His message came minutes after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador handed over the baton of the Fourth Transformation to the former president of the capital Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo after winning the internal polls of the party.
Earlier, the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs reported that next Monday, September 11, he will define with supporters from all over the country which route he will take towards 2024, after he was not elected Coordinator of the Defense Committees of the Fourth Transformation.
The campaign team of the also former head of Government of the Federal District pointed out this afternoon that there will be no press conferences or acts carried out by Ebrard during the weekend, but that it will be the next one when he will define the path he will take in view of the proximity of the presidential elections. of the following year.
“Next Monday, Marcelo Ebrard will hold a national assembly with his structure throughout the country to define the strategic and political route of action. It is not expected that there will be conferences or events until then ”, he pointed out.
Ebrard had today to go to the offices of the National Electoral Institute (INE) to request his registration as a presidential candidate by independent means; However, this did not happen, so the question remains about the future of the possible candidacy of the former Secretary of Foreign Relations in the 2024 elections.
This morning, during an interview with the journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva on the “Por la mañana” program of radio formulaassured that there is no longer space for him or his team in Morena.
“What is clear to us is that in Morena we have no space after yesterday,” he told the journalist almost at the same time that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador showed his support for the former head of government to continue the project of the Fourth Transformation.
“We had not considered that scenario, that such an authoritarian mood was used. Today we will make decisions and on Monday we request an assembly with Morena”, added Ebrard Casaubón.
In the conversation with the outlet, the former Mexican foreign minister said that he would show the party the irregularities that his team saw in the internal process.
