Alito Moreno assumes presidency of Political Parties Conference; it's his third consecutive term

Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, the national leader of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has been sworn in for his third consecutive four-year term as president of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Copppal).

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These times demand leadership, cooperation, and a firm stance against those who seek to weaken checks and balances and limit the rights of citizens.

During the inauguration, Moreno vowed to champion democracy, freedom, respect for the rule of law, and the defense of institutions. He emphasized the need for leadership and cooperation to counter forces seeking to undermine checks and balances and restrict citizens' rights. He thanked the 75 political parties from 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for their trust, as well as representatives from Africa, Asia, and Europe, noting Copppal's global reach.

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Morena sealed an explicit pact of impunity and complicity with organized crime cartels to seize power and dynamite Mexico's democratic political process.

Moreno sharply criticized Mexico's ruling party, Morena, accusing it of making an "explicit pact of impunity and complicity" with organized crime to seize power and destabilize the democratic process. He argued that Morena's rise to power was not a democratic triumph but the result of an "illegal, structured operation" aided by organized crime. He urged the international community to observe the "crude facts" of institutional collapse in Mexico.

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To understand the magnitude of institutional collapse in Mexico, the international community must look at the facts with total crudeness, as the arrival of Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional to power was not a triumph of democracy, but rather the result of an illegal, structured operation, a criminal structure that came to government hand-in-hand with organized crime.

Furthermore, Moreno cautioned that the Americas must restore their political centers, which have been weakened by the erosion of party systems and democratic institutions. He attributed this decline to social and political polarization fueled by populist leaders, which he believes destroys party systems. He reminded attendees that in a diverse society, all political forces are ultimately minorities, and focusing on partisan conflicts distracts from the larger goal of strengthening the republic and its institutions.

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America needs to restore its political centers, lost as a result of the weakening of its party systems, of the weakening of democratic institutionality.