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Morena Candidates Intensify Grassroots Tours in Sonora to Win Territorial Coordination

The municipality-by-municipality outreach seeks to consolidate local control of the Comités de Defensa de la Transformación y la Soberanía Nacional to reinforce support for the SheinbaumDurazo agenda.

Overview

  • Multiple Morena figures have continued territorial tours in Sonora this weekend, holding assemblies, door‑to‑door visits and meetings with merchants and local leaders to build grassroots support.
  • The internal contest for state coordination remains unresolved and includes at least six aspirants, with visible campaigns from Froylán Gámez, Célida López, María Dolores del Río and Javier Lamarque.
  • Candidates frame their bids as defending and extending the Cuarta Transformación by backing President Claudia Sheinbaum and Governor Alfonso Durazo and by highlighting social programs and anti‑corruption rhetoric.
  • Organizing of the same style is reported in other states, with Gino Segura in Quintana Roo, Elizabeth López in Nayarit, Olga Sosa in Tamaulipas and Carlos Torres Piña in Michoacán leading local mobilization efforts.
  • The coordination role is both organizational and political because it structures local mobilization and messaging, and the current tours could determine party unity and ground capacity ahead of Morena’s internal decision making.