Morena Will Apply Filters to Aspirants to Avoid "Undesirable" Candidates: Montiel
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Morena will vet aspirants via the security cabinet and treasury's Financial Intelligence Unit ahead of the 17 governorships up for grabs in 2027.

This article by Néstor Jiménez originally appeared in the June 30, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. After Morena, the Labor Party (PT), and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) concluded the registration of aspirants for the internal process to define the state coordinating committees for the defense of the transformation, the national president of the maroon party, Ariadna Montiel, announced that they will apply filters so that eventually there will be candidates who comply “with all the regulations and so we avoid any character undesirable to us and to society.”

She anticipated that they will ask the federal security cabinet, together with the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), to inform them whether the profiles have any irregularity.

It is not, she explained, about them providing information that lets them know whether someone has bad records of any kind, but rather “that allows us to avoid nominating them, so that we fulfill our commitment to the people of Mexico to present the best candidates, and the best candidates, well, are the ones who win their poll but also pass through the filters we are proposing; that will be handled within Morena afterward.”

At a press conference this Tuesday, she added that the aspirants who win their polls will undergo gender courses, in what she defined as a party conviction to combat machismo.

At the same time, she reiterated that there are false lists that have circulated on social media claiming that it has already been defined where there will be male candidacies and where female ones, for the 17 gubernatorial elections in 2027.

She clarified that “the polls will be conducted and we will see; what if 17 women win and there is nothing to adjust. That is my conviction. That they be only women. But well, once all the polls are applied, we will see whether the male or female gender is the one we must fulfill. And only in that case, only if it is necessary, will it be adjusted.”

Meanwhile, after criticizing the beer giveaway announced by the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, the national president of Morena said they have filed complaints against the Movimiento Ciudadano member and will continue to do so. And in labeling the beer giveaway a “frivolity” by García, she stressed that “deep down, the most serious thing is the corruption” of his government and the abandonment of the state.

She questioned that, faced with the water problems the population suffers in various parts of the state, resources are allocated in that way. Nuevo León “is in total governmental abandonment; now it is not us saying it, the governor stated that he was going to switch into party mode and that, as those who govern, they must take with complete seriousness the task of hosting the World Cup in the state capital,” she indicated.

Montiel also considered that the proposals presented last week by the PAN sum up its narrative in its quest to return to the neoliberal past, and branded the panistas as interventionists and traitors to the homeland. What it represents “is a very right-wing mentality, very much against human rights, that revives this vision of the past and that also, for example, on security, which is their first issue, well, they never talk about addressing the root causes, they never talk about supporting people, about giving them better living conditions… that is what we think of their project, which is not a project but a rehash of what Mexico already lived through, so that is what I think of the PAN.”

In reference to the protests the blue-and-white party launched last Thursday as its “solutions for Mexico,” she said it is the strategy they have applied in the governments of that political force, but that they have not produced any result.

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