AMLO’s Party Risks Rupture as Mexico Midterm Election Nears
- Top candidates in an internal contest are claiming victory
- President refuses to intervene in Morena party’s power battle
Porfirio Munoz Ledo, Morena party lawmaker.
Photographer: Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images
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Mexico’s ruling Morena party risks rupture after the two main candidates in an internal leadership contest exchanged angry accusations that the other is trying to illegitimately take over the movement.
Electoral authorities declared a tie in last week’s contest between veteran leftist Porfirio Munoz Ledo and the party’s lower house leader Mario Delgado, but Munoz claimed victory over the weekend and unsuccessfully tried to take his seat as Morena president at party offices on Monday. He then said that Delgado’s supporters had taken over the offices “in a violent assault.”