The organization Sociedad Civil México leads with Claudio X. González the strategy to present a proposal for Electoral Reform to Congress. The group insists on calling itself a citizen, but defends politicians and, as since 2022, calls for a union between opposition parties.
Mexico City, October 19 (However).– The Civil Society Mexicoone of the letterheads used by the businessman Claudio X. González Guajardo to accompany the opposition bloc, has reorganized itself again, now with the task of presenting a proposal for Electoral Reform contrary to what the Special Commission of the Presidency.
This group insists on calling itself a citizen, but publicly defends politicians. He also continues to call for a union between opposition parties even though, with them, he has added electoral failures since 2022, particularly in 2024, when they spoke of a “citizen” process to define the presidential candidacy, which in the end was the former PAN senator. Xóchitl Gálvez Ruizelected by the partisan leadership of the parties National Action (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and the now extinct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)since the citizen consultation that was promised was not carried out.
Civil Society Mexico, one of the promoters of the Pink Tide, describes the mobilizations it called in recent years, which were attended by citizens, former electoral officials and opposition politicians, and the decision of the parties to vote against the electoral reform of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as a citizen achievement obtained after “pressuring” the parties.
“[En 2024] When the elections approached, we pressured the opposition parties to open their doors to citizens. And then the dilemma arrived: take a stand or remain silent. Some thought that supporting a candidacy was a mistake, but remaining silent would have been worse. The Pink Tide was not born to be a spectator but to defend democracy against the factious use of power,” as they stated in a video broadcast at a press conference on October 8, when they announced that with the “Save democracy” initiative they will seek to collect 130 thousand signatures to present their electoral reform proposal to Congress.
The presentation was made by Claudio X. González and Ana Lucía Medina Galindo, head of the Sociedad Civil México group, who joined the PAN in May 2005; From that year until 2008 she was a local representative of Michoacán, and a candidate for the same position in 2011.
Unlike other initiatives promoted by Claudio Lorenzo Córdova, are in the process of creating a political party called Somos México.”
During the presentation of the initiative “Let’s save democracy”, Ana Lucía Medina called on “the opposition civic force” to join. When asked if by this they mean calling the opposition parties again, he said that they do not rule out looking for them later. In fact, Claudio
“[Jalisco es] one of the few that is not governed by Morena, and that makes it key to preserving democratic rules. That’s why we wanted to start collecting signatures here; We trust that Jalisco will provide thousands of them,” said Claudio X. at the meeting held on October 13.
Support for parties
Although they claim to be representatives of civil society, the organizations related to Claudio X. González are characterized by supporting opposition politicians. In October 2022, the Mexican Civil Society group formed the “Unid@s” block with the National Civic Front, Poder Ciudadano, UNE México, Unidos por México and Sí por México, which called on citizens and opposition political parties to work together to remove positions from Morena at the polls, towards the 2024 federal election.
During the presentation of “Unid@s”, the leader of Civil Society Mexico, Ana Lucía Medina, described the effort as the route to “arrive at a new stage of citizen organization that allows us to achieve our goals in the most effective way.” He highlighted the citizen character of the opposition bloc, although at that time he was a member of the PAN; His name appears on the list of affiliates that the INE makes transparent and is updated until 2023.
Since 2022, and still until the last months of 20204, Sociedad Civil México called meetings with the other letterhead of Claudio
The alliance itself has meant an electoral failure. After the 2024 votes, the PRD lost its registration at the federal level and, compared to 2018, fewer people voted for the PAN and PRI candidacies for the Presidency, deputies and senators; Furthermore, these latter parties also lost governorships and presence in local congresses.
In 2021, the first year they competed in alliance, the PRI lost eight of the 12 states it governed: Colima, Campeche, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala and Zacatecas; In 2022 he lost Hidalgo and Oaxaca and in 2023 he stopped governing the State of Mexico, one of his main bastions. Now he only governs Coahuila and Durango.
While the PAN, which in 2018 governed 11 entities, now heads only four: Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Querétaro. Not only that, in these states, Xóchitl Gálvez only won a majority of votes in the 2024 presidential election in Aguascalientes, while in Querétaro the PAN party lost its majority in Congress.
Despite the lack of electoral results, the messages that Sociedad Civil México has shared on its social networks in recent years make clear its call to compete together and its partisan sympathies.
In 2022, they broadcast on their Telegram channel an image in which, to question the security strategy of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, they celebrated the war against drug trafficking declared by former PAN leader Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2000-2006); That same year they held virtual forums in which they invited, for example, the former legislator and the former PAN president Xóchitl Gálvez and Vicente Fox.
Until 2025 they support PAN politicians from their networks. For example, this week they shared interventions by legislator Lilly Téllez with the message: “We are with you.” In addition, on October 6 they announced their joint work with local Representative Laura Álvarez and former presidential candidate Josefina Vásquez Mota for an event related to child care.
On September 17, Sociedad Civil México also broadcast a series of messages on its
5️⃣ In a country where democracy is eroding every day, losing a voice like María Elena’s is giving ground to authoritarianism. And we don’t have that luxury.
— Civil Society Mexico (@SocCivilMx) September 17, 2025
Civil Society Mexico and the Pink Tide
In November 2022, Sociedad Civil México called for a rally at the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City that was replicated in other cities in the country with the slogan of defending the INE, for this they also used the institute’s characteristic pink color, thus the movement called Pink Tide was born.
Its promoters distanced themselves from the parties, but a month before, in October 2022, they met with representatives of the opposition, as confirmed in May 2024. However Amado Avendaño, then representative of the National Civic Front.
“That meeting took place in the ‘Valentín Campa’ auditorium of the PRD [la sede del partido en la Ciudad de México]on 50 Monterrey Street, on the afternoon of October 26, 22. We headed that table, we were sitting there Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo (then PRD representative before the INE), Cecilia Soto (PRD member and former presidential candidate with the Labor Party), René Arce (former PRD deputy), myself, Fernando Belauzarán (former PAN and PRD militant), Ana Lucía Medina, Beatriz Paredes (Senator of the PRI), Lía Limón (Mayor of Álvaro Obregón with the opposition alliance), I don’t remember if Santiago Creel (PAN member and coordinator of the presidential campaign of
The Unid@s alliance, promoter of the Pink Tide, also mobilized on February 26, 2023 in the capital’s Zócalo and other cities in the country to oppose former President López Obrador’s electoral reform proposal.
By May 2024, when the Marea Rosa openly supported the presidential candidate of the PAN, PRI and PRD, as well as their candidates in different positions, Ana Lucía Medina insisted on the citizen character of the movement.
“In this Unid@s effort there are people who have had or have militancy or preference for a political party, but our agenda is citizen and sometimes we agree with them for a common construction. No one can take away our quality as citizens because it is established in the Constitution and in that sense we will continue working for the democratic future of our country and we are not limited by our past, nor our present nor our future, other than the commitment to the Nation,” she said when questioned by However about the insistence on continuing to mention themselves as outside the parties when they are part of them.
Units: Press Conference Let’s Defend the Republic
— Civil Society Mexico (@SocCivilMx) May 14, 2024
This year, when presenting his initiative to collect signatures, he insisted that it is a citizen effort and, if it reaches Congress, they will look to the political parties.