page_title: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
section_title: Creation of new political party, MORENA
hierarchical_section_title: Andrés Manuel López Obrador / Creation of new political party, MORENA
caption_attribution_description: Lee la nota completa en Revolución 3.0 revoluciontrespuntocero.com/inicia-la-afiliacion-a-morena... A partir de las 10am la gente comenzó a llegar al módulo de registro para afiliarse a MORENA, la organización que encabeza Andrés Manuél López Obrador y que ayer inició el proceso para registrarse como un partido político. Aproximádamente a las 10:30 comenzaron a llegar diversas figuras de la Izquierda como Clara Brugada, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Froylan Yescas y Martí Batres, líder nacional de MORENA para realizar su registro. Andrés Manuél llegó a las 11 de la mañana y, entre abrazos y muestras de afecto, se abrió paso entre la multitud para registrarse y lanzar un mensaje a la gente y los medios de comunicación. Después, el registro continuó pues una gran cantidad de gente hacía fila para ser parte de la organización política.
context_page_description: Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the 58th and current President of Mexico, since 1 December 2018.
  Born in Tepetitán, in the municipality of Macuspana, in south-eastern state of Tabasco, López Obrador graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1986 following a hiatus from his studies to participate in politics. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science. He began his political career in 1976 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Tabasco. His first public position was as director of the Indigenous Institute of Tabasco in 1977, where he promoted the edition of books in indigenous language and the project of the Chontal ridge. In 1989, he joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution and was the party's 1994 candidate for Governor of Tabasco. He was the national leader of the PRD between 1996 and 1999. In 2000, he was elected Head of Government of Mexico City. He left the PRD in 2012 and in 2014 founded the National Regeneration Movement, which he led until 2017. Often described as a center-left progressive democrat and economic nationalist, López Obrador has been a national politician for more than three decades.
context_section_description: Following the 2012 presidential election loss, López Obrador told a rally in Mexico City's main plaza Zócalo on 9 September 2012 that he would withdraw from the Democratic Revolution Party "on the best of terms". He added that he was working on founding a new party from the Movement for National Regeneration ("Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional" in Spanish), which he would later name MORENA. A couple of days after his departure from the PRD, federal deputy Ricardo Monreal stated it was a "divorce for convenience", and that López Obrador did the most responsible thing in order to avoid the polarization of the country. According to polls and surveys, most of the Mexican public had negative view on the establishment of MORENA as a political party. On 7 January 2014, Martí Batres, president of MORENA, presented the documentation to the INE to be acknowledged political party. In 2014, López Obrador revealed why he left the PRD, stating, "I left the PRD because the leaders of that party betrayed the people, they went with Peña Nieto and approved the Pact for Mexico, which is nothing more than a Pact against Mexico. I can not be in a party where tax increases were approved and it was approved that they will increase the price of gasoline every month. Gasoline in Mexico costs more than in the United States, the salary in Mexico is the lowest in the entire North American continent, and instead of asking for wage increases, the PRD rose to the podium to ask for the increase in the price of gasoline, it's an embarrassment." After Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas criticized him for forming his own political party, on 7 July 2014, López Obrador posted on social media that, "PRD leaders and most of its legislators voted for the fiscal reforms [raising taxes and gas prices] and with their collaboration they paved the way for privatization of the oil industry." On 10 July 2014, the INE approved MORENA to be an official political party to receive federal funds and to participate in the 2015 legislative elections.
caption: López Obrador (right) holding his Voter ID upside down along with Martí Batres (center) after submitting the formal political registration of MORENA to the INE
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