Significance: López Obrador is moving ahead at speed to advance his third bid for the presidency in 2018. During Morena’s extraordinary national congress a day earlier López Obrador categorically ruled out an electoral alliance with his former party, the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). López Obrador had threatened to do this if the PRD failed to withdraw its candidate for the governorship of the Estado de México (Edomex) on 4 June. The national electoral institute (INE) has confirmed that Morena’s candidate Delfina Gómez lost the Edomex election by three percentage points to the candidate for the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Alfredo del Mazo Maza. Although Morena has refused to accept the result, and blamed a series of irregularities, it also holds the PRD responsible. The PRD candidate in Edomex, Juan Zepeda, won a significant 18% of the vote.
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