The Solidarity Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Solidario, PES) was a
political party
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in
Mexico
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. The party president was
Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes
Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes is a Mexican politician and founder of the Social Encounter Party (PES). He was the party's national president and one of its eight federal deputies in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. He currently is pr ...
.
It was the functional replacement for the
Social Encounter Party
Social Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Social, PES) was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition ''Juntos Haremos Historia'' with the National R ...
, a Christian-oriented,
social conservative
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party which lost its registration after failing to attract sufficient vote share in the
2018 general election.
History
In 2018, the
Social Encounter Party
Social Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Social, PES) was a Mexican conservative political party established on the national level in 2014 and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalition ''Juntos Haremos Historia'' with the National R ...
, in its second federal election, ran as part of the ''
Juntos Haremos Historia
Juntos Haremos Historia () was a Mexican political coalition encompassing the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and Social Encounter Party (PES), the latter of which was consequently absorbed into the National Regenerati ...
'' alliance with the
National Regeneration Movement
MORENA () is a major Mexican left-wing political party. It is described as an anti-neoliberal and populist party. It is the ruling party of Mexico since 2018.
The name is an acronym for the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (National Regener ...
(MORENA) and
Labor Party (PT). However, despite the alliance electing the winning presidential candidate—
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mexico ...
—and the PES winning 35 seats in the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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and seven in the
Senate
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, its standalone performance was poor. The PES itself failed to attract three percent of the vote in the elections for president, federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompted the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the
Instituto Nacional Electoral
The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (English for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute (, IFE)) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relat ...
(INE) to dispose of the national party's assets. The Social Encounter Party challenged the result and lost, leading to its dissolution on September 3, 2018.
In March 2019, the
TEPJF
The Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary ( es, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, or ) is a venue within the judiciary of Mexico that specialises in electoral matters. Among its functions are resolving disputes aris ...
rendered a final verdict upholding the party's dissolution. Hours later,
Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes
Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes is a Mexican politician and founder of the Social Encounter Party (PES). He was the party's national president and one of its eight federal deputies in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. He currently is pr ...
announced the registration of a new national political group under the name ''Partido Encuentro Solidario'', using the same initials and relying on the political infrastructure and party base developed by its now-defunct predecessor. State- and district-level assemblies were held throughout 2019 and early 2020 to meet the federal registration requirements, with 263 district assemblies having taken place by November 2019.
Despite meeting the registration requirements, concern arose at the INE about the open participation of 15 registered religious ministers in six district assemblies
and Christian organizations, barred from political activity under the law. The result was a marathon session of the INE's General Council on September 5, 2020, which resulted in the board approving the registration of the new PES as a political party on a 6–5 vote; the majority voted to annul only the relevant assemblies, which still left the party over the minimum requirements of members and assemblies.
Lorenzo Córdova Vianello
Lorenzo Córdova Vianello (born 6 February 1972) is a Mexican academic who is the Director of the Instituto Nacional Electoral.
Career
On 3 April 2014, the Chamber of Deputies elected Córdova as the presiding counselor of the National Elect ...
, the head of the institute, called the involvement of religious ministers in party events "a direct and grave violation of the
Constitution
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When ...
". INE councilor Ciro Murayama expressed dismay at the vote, highlighting that the
secular state
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had been damaged and "the legacy of
Juárez">enitoJuárez emerges damaged" from the decision. The party's registration was ratified by the TEPJF after it denied a challenge by the
National Action Party to the INE decision on a 6–1 vote in October 2020.
In the
2021 Mexican legislative election, PES achieved less than the 3% of the vote needed to keep its registry as a valid party, so it lost its registry once again, as it previously did under the guise of the Social Encounter Party. The party lost its official registration on 30 August 2021.
References
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