Mexican migrants in Texas could play a role in choosing the country’s next president next year, and Mexican political leaders are setting up outreach networks — including one in Dallas — to court expat voters.
Marko Corts, president of Mexicos Partido Accin Nacional, or PAN, addresses business leaders at El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant in Oak Cliff on Feb. 6., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Cortés and the other PAN officials see this as an opportunity worth seizing as the party challenges President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. In last year’s gubernatorial elections, Morena flipped four states and now holds 20 of Mexico’s 32 state governorships. “[Mexican migrants] have voting power,” Cortés said, “and the ability to influence and advise their family who lives in Mexico.”
In the last Mexican presidential election in 2018, more than 80% of the nearly 182,000 Mexican migrants who voted from abroad were living in the U.S., according to Mexico’s national election agency. Morena won more than half of the votes abroad in that election, while PAN’s support among expat voters decreased for the second straight election.
"It would be very important to engage citizen participation abroad and encourage voting heading toward 2024," he said."It will be important for our party to create a campaign abroad and guarantee massive participation of Mexicans abroad."could potentially expand his party’s voter bloc in the U.S. The law guarantees Mexican citizenship — and the right to vote in Mexican elections — to all descendants of Mexican citizens, not just the first generation born outside of Mexico.
“Making voting easier for those abroad gives those who left the country an opportunity to continue to play an active role in taking care of their family and friends left behind,” said Lidice Edith Sanabria, an attendee originally from Cuernavaca, Mexico, who is a member of a group of Mexican women in Dallas-Fort Worth who advocate for women's rights.
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