The Citizen Alliance for Security – made up of the PRI, the PAN and the PRD – has registered this Friday the PRI member Manolo Jimenez as a joint candidate for the elections to the Government of Coahuila, which will be held on June 4. The former secretary of Inclusion and Social Development of the demarcation (2022-2023) seeks to maintain the leadership of the PRI in one of its historical strongholds. Jimenez will face, among others, the popular Morena candidate Armando Guadiana.
The PRI candidate has defended in Saltillo that the alliance is building a front with thousands of citizens “who want to take Coahuila to the next level.” In his statements, he has defended that election time is a time to maintain unity in the face of polarization. In recent months, the Va Por Mexico coalition —as the union of the three parties is called at the national level— has experienced a series of tensions due to the aspirations of the three leaders of the formations, even threatening its stability. The contest on June 4 will be the first in which the PRI and the PAN will be allies in a joint candidacy in Coahuila, where until now they remained in dispute.
Jimenez was the most well-known PRI candidate in Coahuila, a point in his favor to have aspirations in an election. The survey launched in October by the public opinion research group mitofsky positioned the PRI as the most recognized, with 50%. Very close to him was Jerico Abramo, current deputy of the tricolor formation in Congress.
In the June 4 elections, the position of governor will be renewed, currently held by PRI representative Miguel Angel Riquelme, who has held his position as head of the state Executive since 2017. On the same day of the contest in Coahuila, the They will also hold the elections in another of the historical bastions of the tricolor formation, the State of Mexico, where the party has remained since 1951.