For a party in government, always exposed to the natural tensions of power and the legitimate ambitions of its cadres, emerging unscathed from an internal process is almost an anomaly.
For this reason, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) has just scored a strategic point that should not be underestimated. Its first major trial by fire, the election of its new authorities, has left behind a silence that can only be interpreted as peace, when a few months ago tempers were heated between groups that promoted holding a convention, and other sectors that opted for a consensus.
Also, the attempt to postpone the election of its internal authorities caused a source of tension within the ruling organization. But everything calmed down.
The PRM has managed to overcome this first hurdle with an institutional maturity that disarmed the opposition, moving away from the ghost of those PRD years. The party has passed its first test, and with high marks.
Contrary to the tantrums, chair-throwing, shootings, allegations of fraud, or public ruptures that were expected, today there is peace in the PRM atmosphere, which confirms that the consensus worked and that the base, for now, has accepted the path laid out.
With the organizational process overcome, the PRM is now heading towards its true Gordian knot: knowing how to choose its next presidential candidate.
This second test will raise the temperature dramatically, as it is no longer about distributing administrative quotas or party leadership; it is about choosing the figure who will embody the nation’s project and who must unify the different internal currents.
The challenge lies in designing a transparent, unquestionable, and democratic election mechanism that avoids bloody wounds.
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The ruling party needs a candidate with enough specific weight to inherit the current political capital, but also with the necessary skill to keep the officialist machinery cohesive. A single misstep in this process could break the peace they currently exhibit.
And all of this converges in the final exam, the supreme objective for which the two previous stages are only the preamble: retaining power. Governing wears you down, and citizen demands give no respite.
The PRM will have to demonstrate to the electorate that it deserves four more years, presenting itself not as a simple short-term option, but as a long-term project of stability.
The current silence of the PRM is a good omen, a necessary respite that demonstrates discipline. But parties are not measured only by how they begin their processes, but by how they end their battles.
The first test is passed; the true political endurance race is just beginning.
