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Social Encounter Party Partido Encuentro Social | |
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| President | Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes |
| Founded | 30 October 2006; 19 years ago (30 October 2006) (regional) 9 July 2014; 11 years ago (9 July 2014) (national) |
| Dissolved | September 3, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-09-03)(national level) |
| Succeeded by | Solidarity Encounter Party |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Ideology | Ultraconservatism[1][2] Conservatism[3] Social conservatism[4] Christian right[5][6] |
| Political position | Right-wing[4][7][A] |
| Colors | Indigo |
^ A: Also described ascentre-right[7] andfar-right[8] | |
Social Encounter Party (Spanish:Partido Encuentro Social,PES) was a Mexicanconservative political party established on the national level in 2014[9] and dissolved in 2018. It was part of the coalitionJuntos Haremos Historia with theNational Regeneration Movement and Mexico'sLabor Party for the2018 Mexican election.
It preceded theSolidarity Encounter Party, established as its replacement in 2019 and granted national party status in 2020.
The Social Encounter Party was founded in 2006 by Dr.Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes, a pastor of aNeo-Pentecostal church that supportedFelipe Calderón in the2006 presidential election.[10] It had previously been a "national political grouping", which does not receive public funding.[11] The party made many of its early successes in the state ofBaja California. In 2007, it supported the successful candidacy ofJosé Guadalupe Osuna Millán of thePAN, but in 2013, it allied with thePRI in Baja California instead, which led it to elect a state deputy to a district inTecate and four council members inTijuana.[11][12]
In July 2014, it obtained federal registry. After doing so, eight of its nine political assemblies were nullified, as bribes were given to attendees.[12]
The party was primarily composed of Evangelical Christians, though it has declared itself as "not religious" in character.[13]
The2015 legislative elections was the first election where PES participated at a federal level. It managed to obtain eight proportional representation seats in theChamber of Deputies as a result of obtaining 3.3 percent of the vote.
The2018 Mexican general election was the first general election where the PES participated with a candidate aspiring for thepresidency, as the party formed a coalition with left-wingNational Regeneration Movement (MORENA) andLabor Party (PT). The parties nominatedAndrés Manuel López Obrador as their presidential candidate.[14]
On 24 June 2017, the PT approved to stand for election in 2018 in an electoral alliance with MORENA; however the coalition was not officially registered before theNational Electoral Institute, the electoral authorities of the country. For MORENA, the alliance was facilitated as a result ofÓscar González Yáñez, the PT gubernatorial candidate in the State of Mexico, withdrawing from the race and endorsing MORENA candidateDelfina Gómez Álvarez.[15][16][17]
At first, there was speculation about the possibility of a front grouping all the leftist parties: MORENA, PRD, PT andCitizens' Movement (MC). However, Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected any kind of agreement due to political differences, especially after the elections in the State of Mexico, when the candidates of the PRD and MC continued with their campaigns refusing to support the candidate of MORENA.[18] At the end of November 2017, the leaders of MORENA and the PES announced that they were in talks to form a possible alliance. In this sense, Hugo Eric Flores said, "We don't negotiate with the PRI, we have two options, go alone or with MORENA."[19]
On December 13, the coalition between MORENA, the PT and the PES was formalized under the nameJuntos Haremos Historia (English: Together we will make history).[20] Following the signing of the agreement, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was appointed as a pre-candidate for the three political formations.[21] It was a partial coalition that promoted López Obrador as a presidential candidate and, with respect to the legislative elections: MORENA was assigned to choose candidates in 150 federal electoral districts and 32 districts to the Senate; PT was assigned to choose 75 deputies and 16 senators, and the PES was assigned to choose 75 deputies and 16 senators.[22][23][needs update]
The alliance has received criticism[from whom?] as it was a coalition between two leftist parties (MORENA and the PT) with a formation related to the evangelical right (PES).[24] In response, the national president of MORENA,Yeidckol Polevnsky, mentioned that her party believes in inclusion, joint work to "rescue Mexico" and that they will continue to defend human rights,[25] while Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes, national president of the PES, mentioned that "the only possibility of real change in our country is the one headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador" and that his party had decided to be "on the right side of history."[26]
Results and dissolution
The results for theJuntos Haremos Historia coalition were strong; López Obrador was elected president in a landslide victory, as well as winning five of the nine state governorships (one of them for PES candidateCuauhtémoc Blanco inMorelos), and the coalition resulted in the election of 55 federal deputies and 7 senators belonging to the party.[27] However, the party failed to attract three percent of the vote in the elections for president, federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by theINE to dispose of the national party's assets.[28] The PES andNew Alliance Party, the other party to lose its registry after the 2018 elections, challenged the results to no avail and on 3 September 2018, the party was dissolved as it had not reached the 3% of the national vote.[29][30]
PES was reborn as theSolidarity Encounter Party (Partido Encuentro Solidario), using the same initials, and granted preliminary recognition to participate in the2021 Mexican legislative election on September 2, 2020.[31]
The PES tended to include many strands ofChristian humanist thought and was generallysocially conservative, and Flores has stated that it was a"family" party.[11][32] The Baja California state party used a stylizedichthys in its logo, which was not used by the national organization.[3]
The party characterized itself as the "party of the family". It opposedsame-sex marriage and was responsible for reforms to the Baja California constitution in 2008 that established marriage as "between one man and one woman".[12] In 2015, the PES gubernatorial candidate in the state ofSan Luis Potosí compared homosexuality todrug trafficking andviolence.[33] Likewise, itopposed abortion and pornographic magazines.[13]
Other proposals made by the PES included shifting the collection ofvalue-added tax to the states instead of the federal government and consolidating it withincome tax.[34][why?]
| Election year | Candidate | Votes | % | Outcome | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | 30,113,483 | 53.19% |  Y Elected | From a different party of its coalition |
| Election year | Constituency | PR | # of seats | Position | Presidency | Note | |||
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| votes | % | votes | % | ||||||
| 2015 | 1,319,203 | 3.49 | 1,325,335 | 3.32 | 8 / 500 | Minority | Enrique Peña Nieto | .svg){kind=logo} | |
| 2018 | 1,056,918 | 2.41 | 1,353,941 | 2.40 | 56 / 500 | Minority | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | .svg) | Coalition:Juntos Haremos Historia |
| SeeSolidarity Encounter Party | |||||||||
| Election year | Constituency | PR | # of seats | Position | Presidency | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| votes | % | votes | % | ||||||
| 2018 | 1,038,325 | 2.35 | 1,320,559 | 2.33 | 8 / 128 | Minority | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | | Coalition:Juntos Haremos Historia |
| SeeSolidarity Encounter Party | |||||||||
En el análisis de la muestra de espectaculares fotografías de los candidatos a diputados federales, se encontró que contendieron 10 partidos políticos, los cuales muestransu nombre, sus siglas y su posición ideológica. Estos fueron: Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) (Centro, Centro derecha); Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) (Derecha, Centro derecha); Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) (Centroizquierda); Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA)(Izquierda); Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM) (Derecha); Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) (Centroizquierda); Nueva Alianza (PANAL) (Centro, Centroderecha); Partido del Trabajo (PT) (Izquierda); Partido Encuentro Social (PES) (Derecha, Centroderecha); Partido Humanista (PH) (No tiene una posición definida)
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