“The true PRI members of principle, of congruence, they are here, they are not leaving, they will not leave”: Guillermo Valencia – MonitorExpresso.com

Morelia, Michoacán. In his weekly press conference, the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Michoacan, Guillermo Valencia Reyes, expressed his position on the PRI members who were in the formal registration of Alfonso Martínez Alcázar as a candidate for mayor of Morelia, making it clear that these political actors are no longer part of the ranks of the PRI. “I want to tell you and be very forceful in this, those PRI members are no longer PRI members, because to begin with they are not registered in the registry, the militancy has to be endorsed every two years and they have not done so for many years and if you tell me that individuals like these are PRI members, the reality is that they are not PRI members.” Valencia Reyes pointed out that there will be more political actors who will leave the PRI, but he did not want to give specific names, while he referred to the people who were supporting the current mayor of the Michoacan capital as: “opportunists, incongruous, who are not in the PRI, those of us who are in the PRI do not go around with half measures.” “The issue is that they want to create a narrative that those who are already there, say that they are PRI members and that is why there were many PRI members, I tell them which PRI members, some more are going to come out later, because they are there and I can give them names, but it is to give them a lot of importance.” Regarding the former mayor of Morelia, Wilfrido Lázaro Medina, the PRI coordinator said that he is upset because he is no longer the leader of the tricolor party, and he also acknowledged that the true PRI members are still within the ranks of the party. “I’m waiting for Wilfrido Lázaro to come out and say: I’m a PRI member, I’m with Alfonso, yes, but when was he here? He wasn’t here, he was never here, so we really didn’t count on them, they’re angry, upset because they like it or not, they don’t have the acronym of the PRI and they can take the PRI members they want, but the true PRI members of principle, Accordingly, here they are, they’re not leaving, they’re not going to leave and we’re going to beat them.”

Original source in Spanish