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Opposition Sees Morena in Decline After EL UNIVERSAL Poll, While MC Stands by Its No-Alliance Decision

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • PRI Secretary General Carolina Viggiano said an EL UNIVERSAL poll shows opposition parties must unite ahead of Mexico's 2027 election, while claiming Morena has lost 30 points.
  • Viggiano said the opposition faces not only a political party but also what she called a “mafia” and organized crime, arguing that Mexico lacks normal democratic competition.
  • Movimiento Ciudadano coordinator Ivonne Ortega rejected an electoral alliance with the PRI or PAN, despite calls to prevent Morena from regaining an absolute congressional majority.

Carolina Viggiano, the PRI's secretary general, sees two messages in EL UNIVERSAL's latest poll: Morena has suffered a sharp decline, and Mexico's opposition parties need to run together in the 2027 election.

“Look, I think there are several readings. The first is that Morena lost 30 points. That is the first one. That is important. The second is that this makes one thing clear: the opposition parties have to go together. There should be no doubt about that,” Viggiano said in an interview.

Look, I think there are several readings. The first is that Morena lost 30 points. That is the first one. That is important. The second is that this makes one thing clear: the opposition parties have to go together. There should be no doubt about that.

· Carolina ViggianoThe PRI secretary general argued that the poll shows both a decline in Morena's support and the need for opposition unity.

She cautioned that polls no longer necessarily reflect reality, arguing that voters have also learned to lie because, in her view, their governors lie. Viggiano said the opposition is not competing against a party alone, but against “a mafia” and organized crime. “The competition is not party against party. If it were party against party, I would understand any justification or explanation, but there is no democratic normality here,” she said.

The competition is not party against party. If it were party against party, I would understand any justification or explanation, but there is no democratic normality here.

· Carolina ViggianoViggiano described the opposition's contest as more than a conventional party competition.

Viggiano argued that voters will continue to see the ruling side as strong until they see the opposition forces unite. She said Morena is not invincible and pointed to the 2021 election, when former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador intervened in the campaign and, according to her, manipulated information during his morning press conference but failed to secure a qualified majority in Congress.

Movimiento Ciudadano, however, is not following the PRI's proposed route. Ivonne Ortega, the party's coordinator in the Chamber of Deputies, rejected the possibility of an electoral alliance with the PRI or PAN, despite calls from PRI leaders to stop Morena from again winning an absolute majority in Congress. The supplied article ends as Ortega begins explaining her position.

I think that if we managed in 2021, despite all that, to prevent them from having an absolute majority, then today we can do it even more so. So I would not treat this as just a snapshot.

· Carolina ViggianoShe cited the 2021 congressional outcome to argue that Morena can be defeated.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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