He continued: “The leadership of PAN betrayed its membership by imposing a candidate who represents the complete opposite of the values defended by the majority of its followers,” he continued, referring to Xóchitl Gálvez, federal senator for PAN and candidate to lead the “Frente Amplio por Mexico” (Broad Front for Mexico) political alliance with her sights on running in the 2024 presidential elections.
Besides PAN, the Frente Amplio por Mexico alliance includes the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
The current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was a member of the PRI from 1976 to 1988, before joining the ranks of the PRD in 1989. He would remain in that political party until 2012. In 2014, he launched his own party, the National Regeneration Movement known as Morena.
PAN, which was started in 1939, was until a few years ago the historical political rival of the PRI, which ruled the country for seven consecutive decades. Finally, in the year 2000, PAN managed to win the presidency, which it held for two consecutive six-year terms: the Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón administrations.
According to its official documents, PAN is informed by the “millennial traditions: Judeo-Christian, Aristotelian, Thomist, and humanist traditions, that have their origins in the classical Greece of Pericles, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.”
In his video, Verástegui showed a clip of a speech that Gálvez delivered before the country’s federal congress on July 29, 2021, where the senator said that she comes “from the Marxist workers’ league” and that her roots are “of Trotskyite origin.”