The theater of the alliance: Monreal brings out the contract
Ricardo Monreal, Morena’s coordinator in San Lázaro, is not asking for favors. You are collecting a debt. His call to the PT and the Green to support the so-called ‘Plan B’ for electoral reform comes with an attached document: an agreement signed in March or April 2024.
“We all signed… a written commitment, all of us, PT, Verde and Morena, that we would accompany all their initiatives,”
The deputy made it clear. It is not a suggestion. It’s a reminder. The move is clear: after the failure of the first reform, Morena needs its entire troops in formation for this second onslaught.
A call that sounds like an ultimatum
Monreal plays the diplomat but his words have edge. He says that Morena ‘has no interference’ in the decision of his allies, but immediately appeals to ‘coherence’ and ‘political responsibility’. Translation: they signed, now they comply.
“I think it’s the right thing to do, it’s the convenient thing to do,”
he added, in that tone between paternal and threatening that dominates Mexican politics.
The strategy is transparent. With the opposition closed as a bloc against any electoral change that comes from the Executive, Morena needs every vote of its coalition. The PT and the Green become, once again, the kings of the small throne.
But this time there is less room for haggling. Monreal is not negotiating; is displaying a political promissory note. The message between the lines is brutal: if they abandon us now, what credibility will they have to ask for something later?
The most interesting thing is what Monreal doesn’t say. It does not talk about the content of Plan B. It does not debate its merits. He only talks about loyalties and signed papers. As if the reform were the least important thing and the important thing was to maintain the theater of unity.
Meanwhile, on the PT and Green benches they must be recalculating its price. Because when they remind you of an old commitment it is because the present is getting expensive.
