PAN low weight in the Congress of the Union

CITY OF MEXICO

18 years after winning the Presidency of the Republic and having endorsed it for six more years, the PAN has also undergone a significant reduction in its national political weight, since it only 22% of the electoral preferences and in the Union Congress to a smaller number of legislators than it had in the last 21 years, with only 92 members in the House of Commons Deputies and only 23 senators.

Although he won the Yucatan government and endorsed those of Puebla and Guanajuato, he lost that of Veracruz and his presence in local congresses declined, even in the states he governs, like Baja California Sur, Durango, Puebla, Veracruz or diminished to its maximum expression in the Sonora congresses, which governed six years; Sinaloa, who also ruled in alliance with the PRD; Colima, Michoacán, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Hidalgo

It was the first time in 1997 that the PAN had the largest number of federal legislators and its dynamic was that of growth up to what it's going to slump this year.

In 1997, the year in which the opposition uprooted the absolute majority of the PRI in the Chamber of Deputies, the PAN added 121 members; In 2000, when PRI defeated the presidency, PAN members added 206 MPs; in 2006, when he re-elected the presidency, he still had 206 federal deputies; in 2012, when he lost him, he had 113 deputies, and in 2015 he won 107 seats.

But in the LXIV legislature, which will begin on September 1st, the PAN will have only 92 members; of them, 42 are of relative majority and 50 are multi-members; that is to say, this time has not reached the 100 lawmakers, who will have in San Lazaro the smallest bench in the last 21 years.

History in the Senate is similar. In 1997, it had 33 legislators; in 2000, it rose to 46; in 2006, they reached 52 members; his fall was in 2012, when only 38 lawmakers arrived, but now the new legislature will begin with only 23 senators; that is, ten times less than twenty-one years ago when the political majority in the Senate began.

Thus, in the Chamber of Deputies, he will have 24% fewer members than in 1997 and in the Senate he will have 30% less than 21 years ago.

Official statistics show that even though the PAN remained the second largest political force at the federal level, its political weight is the smallest, representing only 18.4% in the Chamber of Deputies; 18% in the Senate and 22% nationally; that is to say, this time it will not have a quarter of the citizen representation.

The PAN also recorded in this federal election one of the most media-driven crises that it has had due to the open opposition of various activists to the national leadership Ricardo Anaya and even the party expelled three of the opponents a few hours before Sunday's election.