Bloomberg — Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party, met on Sunday (June 11) to define the rules and calendar to select its candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
The candidate will be selected through a national poll to be held in the week of August 28-September 3. The result will be announced on September 6, said in a press conference by Alfonso Durazo, Sonora state governor and member of Morena.
Durazo said some of the potential candidates are Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Senator Monreal, and Interior Minister Adán Augusto López.
Last week, Ebrard announce his exit from López Obrador’s cabinet and called party leaders to do the same in order to compete for nomination in fair conditions.
“I’m excited to participate in the great Morena movement,” he said at an event in Mexico City. “I’m proud to be part of the fourth transformation and to act according to what we have previously proposed.”
The poll announced by Durazo will likely include four Morena members and it could add two more, one from the Worker’s Party and one from the Green Party, Durazo said.
Lópèz Obrador, known as AMLO, last week urged interested members of Morena to resign their posts and defended the poll method to select the party’s candidate.