The Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM or PVE), also known simply as Green, is a Mexican political party. It was the fourth political party in Mexico by number of representatives in the congress of this country. Most of these positions have been obtained thanks to its strategic alliances with other parties. In the federal elections of the year 2000, together with the National Action Party (PAN), he formed the Alliance for Change, which was victorious in the elections and obtained the presidency of the Republic for the PAN candidate, Vicente Fox. Since 2003, it has made alliances with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, with which in 2012 it won the presidency with Enrique Peña Nieto with 38% of the votes. They currently have different slogans in which they stand out: Green Yes Complies, Join the Green Wave, and I am Green.
In the 2018 presidential elections it was a minor political force, receiving 1.8% of the votes cast. Within the LXV legislature of the Congress of the Union it has 43 federal deputies and 6 senators of the Republic. In October of 2021 maintains the governorship of San Luis Potosí.
History
The party was founded in 1986 under the name Mexican Green Party (PVM) and its first leader was Jorge González Torres. He participated in the 1991 federal elections for the first time independently, under the name Mexico Ecologist Party (PEM). Failing to achieve the percentage of the vote necessary to obtain his final registration, his supporters had to start the tasks again to meet the requirements for obtaining a conditional registration. This was obtained in 1993 and in that same year the party changed its name to the current Green Ecologist Party of Mexico.
Since it obtained its first registration as a political party on February 28, 1991, it has been controlled by a single family: Its first president was Jorge González Torres (public official and former PRI member), who was succeeded as president of the party for his son, Jorge Emilio González Martínez (who served as senator for the period 2000-2006 and nicknamed "el Niño Verde") from 2001 to 2011.
Party Logo between 1994 and 2009.
In the federal elections of 1994 and 1997, the party significantly increased its vote, thereby positioning itself as the fourth political force in Mexico. In this capacity the party agreed to ally with the PAN to participate in the 2000 federal elections under the name Alliance for Change. This alliance achieved victory in the presidential election, but in 2001 the party distanced itself from the administration of President Fox on the grounds that established agreements on environmental matters were not being complied with.
For the 2003 federal elections, the PVEM allied itself in one hundred of three hundred electoral districts with the Institutional Revolutionary Party, forming the Alliance for All and obtaining 17 seats for the party in the Chamber of Deputies, 14 of them proportional representation. In the Senate, the PVEM was left with 5 seats, one with a majority and the rest with proportional representation. From then until 2019, the PVEM sided with the PRI in most state gubernatorial elections.
For the 2006 presidential candidacy, the PVEM had Bernardo de la Garza, a member of the Union Congress, as its candidate. He started a strong advertising campaign on television promoting Garbage Initiatives and "fighting corruption", which led him to gain some support in some sectors of the population. Finally, at the end of November 2005, the Green Party decided to decline and present Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party as its candidate.
During the 2009 midterm election campaign the party focused on promoting the death penalty for murderers and kidnappers, extending school hours to relieve working parents of childcare, and promoting that medicines be free. Television actors participated as spokespersons for the party in its commercials.
In 2012, he registered Enrique Pena Nieto as his candidate, contributing 1.91% to his campaign, but he obtained the registration with 5.75% in the Chamber of Senators, in the Chamber of Deputies he obtained 6.12% and obtained his first government in Chiapas.
In June 2012, the General Council approved a fine of 57,460 pesos against the PVEM leadership for failing to comply with its obligations to the electoral authority in terms of transparency and access to information. Jorge Emilio González Martínez has been continuously accused of acts of corruption, in particular for accepting bribes in the amount of $5,567,113.00 in exchange for allowing construction in protected areas.
Federal Elections 2018
Main article: Federal Elections in Mexico 2018
Internal choice
The party, through the president of the senate, Pablo Escudero, and other militants, have proposed as presidential candidate the senator and coordinator of its bench in the senate, Carlos Puente, an aspiration that he accepted, although he also mentioned the possibility of a alliance with the PRI. This party is also considering the possibility of joining a "broad opposition front" proposed by the PAN and the PRD. On July 26, 2017, a group of militants, including 24 legislators and 57 mayors, published a statement in which they mention the teacher Julia Carabias and the engineer Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano as potential presidential candidates.
The PVEM tried to join the opposition coalition then called the Citizen's Front for Mexico, although in the end only alliances were achieved in the local elections. After this situation, on November 29, Carlos Puente, who had been elected as leader national of the party, offered José Antonio Meade Kuribreña the pre-candidate for his party, which was finally accepted by the PRI standard-bearer on December 11, for which Meade was designated as a pre-candidate for this formation.
Ideology
The party has based its proposal on the conservation of the environment and natural resources, as well as the supposed fight against corruption. Likewise, he has declared himself distant from traditional Mexican politics ("don't vote for a politician, vote for an environmentalist" was his motto in 1997).
On the other hand, Greenpeace, taking into account its differences with the Green Party regarding the acts of demonstration and resistance in defense of the environmental cause, considers that it is not an ecological party due to the lack of interest of its party members in the ecology of the country.
On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, the now-defunct newspaper El Independiente of Mexico City published that during a meeting he held in London, Jorge González Martínez with Mexican postgraduate students, responded to those who told him questioned about the PVEM programs in defense of the Mexican environment: "I care less about ecology, I represent interests"
Recently (2008 and 2009) he has been widely criticized for his campaign in favor of the death penalty. This policy has cost the PVEM that on February 10, 2009 the European Green Party withdrew the recognition of the PVEM as part of its family, and asked Global Verde to also analyze the expulsion of the party.
He has also been accused of being a family match.
Disputes
Delivery of shirts, mandiles and caps by PVEM.
Old woman with "Yes fulfills" beach of the PVEM.
The Green Party has been repeatedly denounced before the electoral authority for alleged violations of the electoral law. The Democratic Revolution Party accused the Green Party of receiving illegal contributions from Televisa, TV Azteca and the Federal Legislative Branch for more than 2,284 million pesos, this is due to the dissemination of promotional propaganda, even outside electoral times, that the party received from Grupo Televisa, representing a contribution in kind of at least 1,466,013,233 pesos. Regarding Televisión Azteca, the contribution in kind denounced totaled 818,152,867 pesos, for this reason a possible collusion of interests has been pointed out, since Ninfa Salinas Sada is the daughter of Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner and President of TV Azteca. In the same way, the legislative power, through the parliamentary fractions of the PVEM, would have financed the campaign of the political party with more than 83 million pesos.
The National Electoral Institute (INE), through the Technical Unit for Electoral Litigation, ordered the immediate suspension of promotional advertising in the companies Cinépolis and Cinemex, as well as certain fixed advertising, of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), after declaring it illegal propaganda and also after determining that the party failed to comply with the precautionary measures it issued. Its leader Jorge Emilio González has been accused of corruption, influence peddling and illicit enrichment, while some academics (Denise Dresser) have called the green party the "private business of the González family" and have been accused of "selling out" according to the political conveniences of the moment.
In 2015, an election year, the General Council of the National Electoral Institute unanimously approved a fine of 67.1 million pesos against this party, for omitting or failing to comply with the precautionary measures in which it was ordered to suspend its campaign in theaters, abroad Since electoral times, the party's response has been to accuse the other parties or other political figures of supposedly similar events, without denying the multimillion-dollar contractual relationship that it has established with some cinema chains. Likewise, the green party has become the main political institute creditor of complaints and denunciations for contempt of the electoral authority and violation of the law; In five months the Green Party accumulated 27 electoral complaints for violation of the electoral law and illegal financing, twenty were promoted by different parties, four from the legislative power and two citizen complaints, with which it has monopolized the complaints in the electoral process, and As a result of the 2012 elections, the party has been fined 194 million pesos, the largest fine against a party since the Pemexgate case.
Use of celebrities in electoral ban
In the 2015 elections, personalities from the "showcase", from different media such as TV Azteca, denounced that various "advertising agencies" they had offered them up to more than 200,000 pesos to spread messages in favor of the Green Party through social networks on the day of election day, despite the existence of an absolute ban on carrying out any type of campaign.
This episode would be repeated again in the 2021 elections, when various internet and television celebrities shared stories in support of the party on their Instagram profiles, which triggered a series of criticisms and an investigation by part of the National Electoral Institute.
Conflict with the TEPJF in 2015
After the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico was fined the most during the electoral campaigns for disseminating propaganda of its reports, the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation decided to reduce another fine to said party, which was 11,400,000 pesos and ended at 1,189,000.
Another of these fines was the one imposed for the delivery of groceries in Quintana Roo through the "Green Family," which was 70,100 pesos. The pantry contained: three packages of cookies, toothpaste, soap, two kilos of flour, a liter of milk, toilet paper, and two packets of seasoning.
Offices of Election
The Green Party has formed a coalition with the PRI, PAN and PRD. As of 2003, the coalitions are mainly with the PRI. In 2012, after negotiating with these parties, the government of Chiapas obtained in alliance with the Panal and the PRI, the transfer of the gubernatorial candidacy to Manuel Velasco.
In 2019, it formed an alliance with the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) and the Labor Party (PT) parties, forming the “Together We Will Make History” coalition in the states of Baja California, Puebla and Quintana Roo where elections would be held in the same year.
Governments emanating from PVEM
- Chiapas (2012-2018)
- San Luis Potosí (2021-2027)
PVEM Presidents
- (1991 - 2001): Jorge González Torres
- (2001 - 2011): Jorge Emilio González Martínez
- (2011 - 2020): Carlos Alberto Puente Salas
- (2020 - current): Karen Castrejón Trujillo
Election results
Presidency of the Republic
| Election
| Candidate
| Voting
| Position
| Commentary
|
|---|
| Votes
| Percentage
|
|---|
| 1994
| | Jorge González Torres
| Party
| 327 313
| | 5.o
| |
| 2000
|  | Vicente Fox | Coalition
| 15 989 636
| | 1.o | |
| 2006
|  | Roberto Madrazo
| Coalition
| 9 301 441
| | 3.o
| The Coalition for the Good of All accuses electoral fraud.
|
| 2012
|  | Enrique Peña Nieto | Party
| 2 803 654
| | 1.o | The Coalition Progressive Movement accuses electoral fraud.
|
| Coalition
| 19 226 784
| |
| 2018
| | José Antonio Meade
| Party
| 1 051 480
| | 3.o
| |
| Coalition
| 9 289 853
| |
Chamber of Deputies
| Election
| District
| RP | Scalls
| Position
| Presidency
|
|---|
| votes
| %
| votes
| %
|
|---|
| 1991
| 329 714
| 1.37
| 332 603
| 1.37
| | No representation
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari
|  |
| 1994
| 470 951
| 1.36
| 472 454
| 1.36
| | No representation
| Ernesto Zedillo
| |
| 1997
| 1 105 922
| 3.62
| 1 116 137
| 3.71
| | Minority
| Ernesto Zedillo
| |
| 2000
| 14 212 032
| 38.24
| 14 321 975
| 38.29
| | Minority
| Vicente Fox
|  |
| 2003
| 4 701 426
(1 063 471)
| 17.64
(3.99)
| 4 706 406
(1 068 721)
| 17.60
(4.00)
| | Minority
| Vicente Fox
| |
| 2006
| 11 619 679
| 28.21
| 11 676 585
| 28.18
| | Minority
| Felipe Calderón
| |
| 2009
| 219 861
| 6.50
| 2 328 072
| 6.71
| | Minority
| Felipe Calderón
| |
| 2012
| 3 045 385
| 6.11
| 3 054 718
| 6.10
| | Minority
| Enrique Peña Nieto
| |
| 2015
| 2 572 632
| 6.53
| 2 758 152
| 6.91
| | Minority
| Enrique Peña Nieto
| |
| 2018
| 1 429 802
| 2.55
| 2 695 405
| 4.78
| | Minority
| Andrés Manuel López Obrador
|  |
| 2021
| 963 824
| 2.04
| 2 587 125
| 5.45
| | Minority
| Andrés Manuel López Obrador
| |
Senate of the Republic
| Election
| District
| RP | Scalls
| Position
| Presidency
|
|---|
| votes
| %
| votes
| %
|
|---|
| 1994
| | 473 742
| 1.34
| | No representation
| Ernesto Zedillo
| |
| 1997
| | 1 180 804
| 3.91
| | Minority
| Ernesto Zedillo
| |
| 2000
| 14 198 073
| 38.11
| 14 334 559
| 38.20
| | Minority
| Vicente Fox
| |
| 2006
| 11 622 012
| 28.07
| 11 681 395
| 27 99
| | Minority
| Felipe Calderón
| |
| 2012
| 2 869 843
| 5.75
| 2 880 080
| 5.73
| | Minority
| Enrique Peña Nieto
| |
| 2018
| | | | | | Minority
| Andrés Manuel López Obrador
| |
Gubernatorialships obtained
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