Workers Party Claims Sheinbaum Electoral Reform Will Eliminate Party System

ByGeorgina Saldierna and Nestor Jimenez

This article by Georgina Saldierna and Nestor Jimenez originally appeared in the March 2, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

On the eve of the submission of the electoral reform initiative to Congress, the disagreement between Morena and its allies in the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) persists. Yesterday, PT leader Alberto Anaya declared that they will not allow any democratic backsliding in Mexico.

“We say no to the return of the old state party that dominated Mexico from 1929 to 2018,” he stressed, adding that they will fight to preserve political pluralism and prevent the disappearance of the party system.

In a statement, he highlighted the democratic spaces that the left managed to conquer with the reforms of 1977 and 1996, which he defined as a “fruit of countless struggles, repressions, imprisonments, disappearances and even armed uprisings.”

This, he pointed out, obliges the PT to “maintain our position with dignity and consistency.”

The differences between the members of the majority bloc in Congress stem from the presidential proposal to reduce party funding and modify the election of multi-member district representatives.

Ricardo Monreal, the Morena coordinator in the Chamber of Deputies, stated that it is false that the presentation of this initiative will generate political instability or economic turbulence.

He indicated that the Morena parliamentary group will support President Claudia Sheinbaum and deepen the dialogue with the PT and PVEM, as well as with legislators from the National Action Party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the Citizen Movement.

A Step Backwards, Eliminate the PREP: PRI

Meanwhile, the PRI coordinator in San Lázaro, Rubén Moreira, estimated that the intention to eliminate the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) is a step backward.

He emphasized that it was created as an institutional response to the crisis of confidence stemming from the 1988 presidential election, with the aim of providing certainty, speed, and transparency to the election results.

The leader of the PAN party, Jorge Romero, considered it necessary to adjust the laws in this matter, but it is not possible to address changes to the electoral system without first addressing the most serious problem that Mexican democracy faces today: the intervention of organized crime in the elections.