translated from Spanish: Morena proposes to renew its management in August; expect approval

Morena’s National Executive Committee (CEN) approved a poll among militants in the last week of August to elect those who will hold the party’s presidency and general secretariat for the next three years.
However, the internal elective process may not take place, because the CEN is awaiting the Federal Ministry of Health (Ssa) to respond to a consultation on whether it considers it advisable, under the current conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, to hold partisan events involving large congregations of people.
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While Morena will elect its presidency and general secretariat by survey, the statute forces the party to forcibly hold militant assemblies in the country’s 300 electoral districts, as well as state councils and congresses, and finally the III Ordinary National Congress, in which the 200 members of the new National Council will be elected.
The Ssa is expected to express its view against such events, as they would involve the congregation of many people, anticipated partisan sources.
Even the same call establishes the possibility that the election will be suspended due to contingency.
“Derived from the emergency situation caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus pandemic (COVID-19), the obligation to suspend the deadlines set out in this call for the renewal of management, execution and driving bodies should be considered as an extraordinary cause, only if the health emergency warrants it,” he says.
Should the internal election be postponed, interim President Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar could remain in office indefinitely until the 2021 federal elections pass.
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The call states that only those elected national advisors and advisers could register as aspiring to the party’s presidency and general secretariat by survey.
The survey would be conducted from August 24 to 26, and the results would be released on Saturday, Saturday, The 29th of that month, in session of the National Congress.
On that day, 19 new members of the CEN would also be elected, but not by poll, but by freehand vote of congressmen.
The call did not establish locks for public officials seeking the presidency or general secretariat of the party, which would specifically benefit Mario Delgado, Morena coordinator in the Chamber of Deputies.
Another of the aspirants, Alejandro Rojas, has demanded that the applicants who in turn are officials resign from their posts in advance, so that conditions of fairness are guaranteed in the contest.
Contrary to this, the call defined that, if elected, those who are public servants must resign their position up to two days after the election.
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Original source in Spanish