The National Regeneration Movement political party is also well known as Morena. It is a Mexican political party that has garden roots. Morena has been a ruling party of Mexico since 2018. The name is an acronym for Movimiento Regeneración Nacional which means brown-skinned in Spanish. It also indicates the Catholic national patroness of Mexico: the Virgin of Guadalupe known as ‘La Morena’. The current President of the party is Mario Martín Delgado and the secretary-general is Citlalli Hernandez Mora. The party was a part of the Juntos Hacemos Historia alliance for the legislative elections of 2021. In this blog we are going to tell you the National Regeneration Movement Political Party, so read this full blog to get the complete information.
History
The National Regeneration Movement was specially founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador also known as AMLO. It was established as a nonprofit organization on 2 October 2011 and then on 10 July 2014, it was officially registered as a political party. It was structured as a democratic socio-political movement to protest against political corruption, electoral fraud, and the policies that label the ‘power mafia’. After the defeat in the 2012 election, López Obrador left his former political party that was Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). After that, he transformed Morena from a movement into a political party and he became the leader of the party. As the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas size tips for forming his political party so López Obrador posted on social media and revealed why he left the party.
In the 2015 legislative elections, Morena participated for the first time as an official political party and won 35 seats in the Chamber of Deputies including 14 district seats and 21 proportional seats.
On 13 December 2017, PES agreed to join the coalirion between Morena and PT and thus they all together formalized under the name Juntos Haremos Historia which means Together we will make history. After signing the agreement, López Obrador was appointed as the pre-candidate for the three parties. López Obrador was chosen as a presidential candidate and that legislative election was divided between the three. Morena selected their candidates in 150 federal electoral districts and 32 Senate rates while the PT and PES each nominated their 75 candidates for the Chamber of deputies and 16 for the Senate.
Their alliance received criticism because the coalition was between two left-wing parties that is Morena and PT with a formation related to the Evangelical right PES. Responding to this, the national president of Morena Yeidckol Polevnsky said that her party believes in inclusion and teamwork so that they can rescue s together and they will continue to defend human rights. Further, the national president of the PES Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes said that the only possibility of aerial change in our country is that the one headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his party had decided to be on the right side of history.
Then in the 2018 general election, Morena participated in the presidential election for the first time. In this election, Morena fought the election in coalition with the socialist Labor party and the right-wing Christian Conservative Social Encounter party under the name Juntos Haremos Historia.
The result of the election came on 1 July 2018 and the candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the presidential election. The party won a total of 55 seats in the senate including 42 constituency seats and 13 proportional representation seats. Further, Morena won 156 seats in the chamber of deputies which included 106 seats based on district and 85 seats of proportional representation. Additionally, the party also won for governorships of Mexico City, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz.
Principles of Morena
The National Regeneration Movement party describes itself as a democratic left-wing party that supports ethnic, religious, cultural, and sexual diversity, respect for human rights, and environmental care. The party identifies itself as an opponent to the neoliberal economic policies which Mexico began adopting in the 1980s. According to Morena, a new economic model is required after the failures of neoliberalism in Mexico as it has increased corruption and inequality. The party favors development through private and social businesses, promoting market competition but exercising State responsibility in the strategic activities which the Constitution States. And it also proposes a model which strengthens the inner market fair wages. A model that promotes syndical freedom and democracy and the state does not interfere in the inner affairs of the trade organizations.
The party also sets up to stop the privatization of Permex and the granting of plants to foreign mining companies as they devast the lands and pay no taxes and harm the environment as well. Moreover, the party also declared that they are in favor of improving the conditions of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. The party is against the monopolization of the mass media especially television by Televisa and TV Azteca.
Unlike other parties in Mexico, Morena has not sought to reduce inequality by increasing taxes on the wealthy people but instead, the party has focused on reducing the pay gap which is between lower-level employees and higher-level government workers’ salaries so they reduced the salary of higher-ranking public officials.
The pragmatism of the Party
Morena has been described as “not in the strict sense a political party, but an alliance of diverse movements and political actors whose main reference is its founder and presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador” by various outlets. Due to the pragmatism of AMLO, some critics have said that the party is subject to the decisions of Obrador rather than having a more consistent ideology as a party. In 2018, an article was written in a magazine named Clarín that describes that position of Morena as “oscillating between populism and social democracy”.
Party Presidents Till Now
Several party presidents held the office till now. Please include Marti Batres from 2012 to 2015, Andrés Manuel López Obrador from 2015 to 2017, Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz from 2017 to 26 January 2020, Alfonso Ramírez Cuellar from 26 January 2020 to 24 October 2020 and the current President Mario Martín from 24 October 2020 till now.