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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 31 January 2020
MEXICO: Morena consumed by power tussle
“It is bipolar now: two leaders and two factions at war. The situation could not be any worse.” This was how a leadership aspirant for Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) described the factional struggle for control of the left-wing party which brought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power in 2018. After an extraordinary national congress on 26 January two different figures claim to be president of Morena amid internal divisions which have dragged in the federal electoral tribunal (TEPJF). López Obrador called for a democratic solution but washed his hands of the matter, saying he governed for all Mexicans. This non-partisan tolerance was not on display when the ‘march for truth, justice, and peace’ led by the prominent peace activist Javier Sicilia arrived in Mexico City on the same day. López Obrador denigrated those in the march as “corrupt conservatives” who had ignored Mexico’s public security problems under previous governments.
