Dante recovers Veracruz

The upcoming elections in Durango and Veracruz will be a testament to a day that made history.

The question raised by the election results in Veracruz is whether the victory of Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizen Movement) is real, and whether Morena, or MC, lost ground, becoming the recipient of a vote of punishment from Morena supporters for the arbitrary actions carried out before, during, and after the campaigns.

The truth is, there's a bit of everything. Morena's progress isn't keeping pace with the election results in Veracruz, where disaster was accompanied by public apathy and disappointment with unknown candidates.

In her morning press conference on Tuesday, June 3, President Claudia Sheinbaum denied that the Morena coalition, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, and the Labor Party had fared poorly in the June 1 election, asserting that they would govern more municipalities and a larger population. “So, if they say how badly the Morena, Green, and Labor Party coalition did in Durango and Veracruz! Well, no, it's true, they're governing a larger population. So all this stuff, even the Wall Street Journal, about how badly the coalition had fared—well, no, it didn't.”

The political savvy of the moral leader of the Citizen Movement, Dante Delgado, deserves special mention. His experience and knowledge of the state yielded tangible results on this occasion.

Becoming the second-largest electoral force in a state like Veracruz heralds greater triumphs in the future, a position that Movimiento Ciudadano had never enjoyed before and which now, at its moment of maturity as a political force, and faced with the fragility of Morena and the agony of the PRI and PAN, is also achieving good results on its own merits.

The disenchantment of the young Morena party members and the founders, who are numerous in Veracruz, pushed MC to a position that, while already expected given the release of polls announcing it as the second force, boosted levels that Dante Delgado had long deserved.

A political scholar like Dante Delgado now has a series of achievements that put the opportunity for younger people to gain greater ground. Thus, Dante becomes an uncrowned champion who laid the foundation for a crop that is already beginning to break into the country's politics.

A series of conditions prevailed in Veracruz that scuppered potential victories. One of the most important was in Poza Rica, where the vote difference leaves no room for doubt. Morena's confidence in that municipality led to its defeat, but a very important factor, named Fernando Remes, played a role. Morena's defeat in that oil-producing city is a sign of condemnation of this criminal, which is why Morena had to wage an intense campaign, but it relied on its winning the space, with the consequences we are seeing now.

The administration of Fernando Remes, which unfortunately won't end for another six months, forced the people of Pozarí to choose the best options within the political landscape and found that Movimiento Ciudadano could take on this responsibility.

He is a political sage. His knowledge and experience of how society reacts to elections and how he achieves higher levels of acceptance among society is the work of someone experienced in combining the present and the past to make history.

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