Juntos Haremos Historia

Summary

Juntos Haremos Historia (transl. Together We Will Make History) was a Mexican political coalition encompassing the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and Social Encounter Party (PES), the latter of which was consequently absorbed into the National Regeneration Movement, to compete in the 2018 general election. Its current leader, as well as their presidential candidate, is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won the election.

Together We Will Make History
Juntos Haremos Historia
Party Presidents Yeidckol Polenvsky
Alberto Anaya
Presidential candidateAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Founded15 December 2017 (2017-12-15)[1]
Dissolved23 December 2020 (2020-12-23)
Succeeded byJuntos Hacemos Historia
IdeologySocialism of the 21st century[2][3]
Social democracy
Left-wing nationalism[4]
Cardenism[5]
Reformism[6]
Social conservatism[7]
Political positionLeft-wing
Website
lopezobrador.org.mx/temas/juntos-haremos-historia/

The coalition was disbanded in 2020 and succeeded by the Juntos Hacemos Historia coalition, including the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico.[8]

History edit

Juntos Haremos Historia was registered with the National Electoral Institute on 15 December 2017, to compete in the general election. The parties will field joint candidates for the presidency, 292 of 300 district seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and all 64 candidacies to the Senate of the Republic. The coalition is structured such that MORENA holds a 50 percent vote and the other two parties 25 percent.[1] A similar distribution is followed for the allocation of candidacies, including at the state level.

On 18 February 2018, at its national convention, MORENA unanimously selected López Obrador as its presidential candidate; the Labor Party and Social Encounter Party followed over the next two days.[9]

However, on 3 September, due to the fact that the Social Encounter Party failed to attract three percent of the vote in the elections for president, federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the INE to dispose of the national party's assets, the PES and the New Alliance Party, both lost their registry after the 2018 elections, and after they challenged the results, to no avail, the party was dissolved. In early-2019, nine deputies from the PRD left the party and joined the MORENA-led government coalition of López Obrador and it resulted to the government gaining a two-thirds majority, allowing for the passage of constitutional reform.[10]

State coalitions edit

At the state level, Juntos Haremos Historia will compete as a similarly configured coalition in 27 of the 30 states holding simultaneous local elections in 2018.[11] Among the states where the three parties did not enter into coalition was Hidalgo, where the state PES party is linked to former PRI Secretary of the Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong.[12] In the State of Mexico, a coalition agreement was signed but has caused dissent among PT party members for relegating the party in key municipalities.[13]

Election results edit

Presidential elections edit

Election year Candidate Votes % Outcome Notes
2018 Andrés Manuel López Obrador 30,113,483 53.19%  Y Elected

Congressional elections edit

Chamber of Deputies edit

Election year Constituency PR # of seats Position Presidency Note
votes % votes %
2018 24,345,307 43.49% 24,536,267 43.58%
306 / 500
Majority Government Andrés Manuel López Obrador   Tallies added from INE District Count.

Senate edit

Election year Constituency PR # of seats Position Presidency Note
votes % votes %
2018 24,495,628 43.56% 24,746,578 43.65%
69 / 128
Majority Government Andrés Manuel López Obrador   Tallies added from INE District Count.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b García, Carina; Zavala, Misael (15 December 2017). "Registran coalición Juntos Haremos Historia". El Universal. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  2. ^ www.tresite.com, Diseño UX/UI: www soychris com | Programación. "El Socialismo de López Obrador". La Silla Rota (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ^ Beck, Humberto (20 February 2020). "AMLO, ¿socialista del siglo XXI?". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Mexico's new president is a nationalist, but he's not anti-American". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ "Declaración de principios de MORENA" (PDF). Morena.sí (in Spanish).
  6. ^ "Amlo y las nuevas izquierdas".
  7. ^ Garcia, David Alire (15 July 2021). "Mexico presidential race roiled as leftist front-runner embraces right wing party". Reuters. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Morena, PT y PVEM presentan alianza 'Juntos hacemos historia' para elecciones de 2021". El Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  9. ^ Belmont, José Antonio; López Ponce, Jannet (18 February 2018). "Morena postula a AMLO a la Presidencia". Milenio.
  10. ^ Huerta, David (20 February 2019). "Ruptura del PRD da a Morena mayoría calificada en San Lázaro". Expansion Politica. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Concreta Morena coaliciones en al menos 27 estados". El Universal. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  12. ^ Gutiérrez, Héctor (14 January 2018). "Concreta Morena alianza en 26 estados". Reforma. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  13. ^ "Anaya debe retirar su firma de la coalición para Edomex: Carlos Sánchez". Diario Evolución. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.