PRI comes as "third force" at the Aguascalientes Congress

AGUASCALIENTES.- The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) succeeded in positioning itself as the "third force" in the Congress of the State, this through seats of proportional representation. Of the nine at stake, he finally won three, while, for the opposite reason, the National Action Party (PAN) did not add one to the relative majority that he won in the elections of July 1st. .

Of the remaining six plurinomials, three were assigned to the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), one to the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), another to the New Alliance (Honeycomb) and the last to the Labor Party (PT ) Héctor Quiroz García charged by the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) for the deviation of 100 million pesos brought by the Government of Nuevo León for the operation of Development Centers of the child (Cendis).

His counterpart of the PAN, Paulo Martínez López who headed the corresponding list registered by the party, was excluded from the Congress of the State.

With the distribution of nine multi-member positions, plus 18 of the disputed relative majority in the election, the next LXIV state legislature will be integrated by 12 deputies of national action, seven of Morena and three of the PRI, so these parts are respectively placed in first, second and third force. The other five will be – one per head – from the PVEM, PT, PRD, Nueva Alianza and Movimiento Ciudadano.

In Aguascalientes, there will not be independent deputies either. The three citizens who obtained the registration and supported as such in districts VI and VII – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez Jorge Ríos Contreras and Jesús de la Cruz Arroyo – represented a small number of votes in the respective demarcations: between 700 and about two thousand.

The President of the General Council of the Electoral Institute (IEE), Luis Fernando Landeros Ortiz confirmed, on the other hand, that the PRD, PES and Movimiento Ciudadano will lose the prerogative access of the state to register voting percentages lower than three percent, the minimum threshold, "he said, marked by electoral legislation.

According to the latest calculations, the Aztec sun achieved 2.91% of the vote, Social Meeting 2.54 and Movimiento Ciudadano 2.28. According to Landeros Ortiz, the three parties will have the right to appeal to the courts, although he doubts that they can change the panorama they face.

In this regard, also approved that "from 1 July will be included in the financial pool of the local parties" United We Can More "and" Party of Aguascalientes ", whose registration was approved by the IEE General Council on April 27th.