Solidarity Encounter Party
{{distinguish|text=Social Encounter Party, which was its predecessor}}{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Short description|Mexican political party}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Solidarity Encounter Party
| native_name = Partido Encuentro Solidario
| abbreviation = PES
| colorcode = #702F8A
| logo = File:Logo Encuentro Solidario.svg
| logo_size = 225px
| president = Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes
| predecessor = Social Encounter Party
| dissolution = National Level: August 30, 2021
| membership =
| membership_year =
| ideology = Conservatism{{cite news|work=Animal Político|first=Majo|last=Siscar|url=http://www.animalpolitico.com/2014/07/partido-encuentro-social-favor-de-las-familias-tradicionales-y-contra-el-aborto/|access-date=February 10, 2016|date=July 15, 2014|title=Partido Encuentro Social, a favor de las familias tradicionales y contra el aborto|archive-date=February 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216172844/http://www.animalpolitico.com/2014/07/partido-encuentro-social-favor-de-las-familias-tradicionales-y-contra-el-aborto/|url-status=live}}
Social conservatism{{cite web|last=Garcia|first=David Alire|date=December 15, 2017|access-date=May 30, 2018|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-election-amlo/mexico-presidential-race-roiled-as-leftist-front-runner-embraces-right-wing-party-idUSKBN1EA00L|title=Mexico presidential race roiled as leftist front-runner embraces right wing party|publisher=Reuters|archive-date=May 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527012524/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-election-amlo/mexico-presidential-race-roiled-as-leftist-front-runner-embraces-right-wing-party-idUSKBN1EA00L|url-status=live}}
Christian right{{r|sincambios}}
| position = Right-wing{{r|Garcia|sincambios}}
| colours = Purple, lilac
| slogan = El Partido de la Familia, la Vida, la Paz y la Reconciliación (The Party of the Family, Life, Peace and Reconciliation){{Cite web |date=December 14, 2020 |title=Estatutos |trans-title=Statutes |url=https://www.ine.mx/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cppp-pes-estatutos-14-12-2020.pdf |website=ine.mx |language=es |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=August 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810154158/https://www.ine.mx/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cppp-pes-estatutos-14-12-2020.pdf |url-status=live }}
| website = {{URL|pesnacional.org}}
| country = Mexico
}}
The Solidarity Encounter Party ({{langx|es|Partido Encuentro Solidario}}, PES) is a state-level political party in Mexico. The party president is Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes.
It is supposed to be the functional replacement for the Social Encounter Party, a Christian-oriented, social conservative party which lost its registration after failing to attract sufficient vote share in the 2018 general election.
History
{{Quote box
| quote = All the structure that is participating today is Encuentro Social ... Basically the structure from 2014 is the same people that are doing the job. There are no changes in the ideology of the party.
| author = Alejandrina Moreno
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In 2018, the Social Encounter Party, in its second federal election, ran as part of the Juntos Haremos Historia alliance with the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and Labor Party (PT). However, despite the alliance electing the winning presidential candidate—Andrés Manuel López Obrador—and the PES winning 35 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and seven in the Senate, its standalone performance was poor. The PES itself failed to attract three percent of the vote in the elections for president, federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompted the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) to dispose of the national party's assets.{{cite news|first=Alejandro|last=Suárez|url=https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/politica/panal-y-pes-pierden-registro-ine-inicia-proceso-de-liquidacion-1825875.html|date=July 9, 2018|title=Panal y PES pierden registro; INE inicia proceso de liquidación|work=El Sol de México|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709133516/https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/politica/panal-y-pes-pierden-registro-ine-inicia-proceso-de-liquidacion-1825875.html|url-status=live}} The Social Encounter Party challenged the result and lost, leading to its dissolution on September 3, 2018.{{cite web|title=El Partido Encuentro Social desaparece tras los resultados electorales|url=http://protestantedigital.com/internacional/45438/El_Partido_Encuentro_Social_desaparece_tras_los_resultados_electorales|work=Protestante Digital|date=September 4, 2018|access-date=September 6, 2018|archive-date=September 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907032323/http://protestantedigital.com/internacional/45438/El_Partido_Encuentro_Social_desaparece_tras_los_resultados_electorales|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=INE aprueba pérdida de registro de Nueva Alianza y Encuentro Social|url=https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/INE-aprueba-perdida-de-registro-de-Nueva-Alianza-y-Encuentro-Social-20180903-0027.html|work=El Economista|date=September 3, 2018|access-date=September 6, 2018|archive-date=September 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905075238/https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/INE-aprueba-perdida-de-registro-de-Nueva-Alianza-y-Encuentro-Social-20180903-0027.html|url-status=live}}
In March 2019, the TEPJF rendered a final verdict upholding the party's dissolution. Hours later, Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes announced the registration of a new national political group under the name Partido Encuentro Solidario, using the same initials and relying on the political infrastructure and party base developed by its now-defunct predecessor.{{Cite news |last=Cruz |first=Abigaíl |date=March 22, 2019 |title=¿PES resucitará como Partido Encuentro Solidario? |language=en |work=El Sol de México |url=https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/politica/pes-resucitara-como-partido-encuentro-solidario-3217569.html |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201184611/https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/politica/pes-resucitara-como-partido-encuentro-solidario-3217569.html |url-status=live }} State- and district-level assemblies were held throughout 2019 and early 2020 to meet the federal registration requirements, with 263 district assemblies having taken place by November 2019.{{Cite news |last=Alanís |first=Ricardo |date=November 23, 2020 |title=Partido Encuentro Solidario cumple con asambleas para registro ante INE |language=es-MX |work=Milenio |url=https://www.milenio.com/politica/partido-encuentro-solidario-cumple-asambleas-registro-in |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127225916/https://www.milenio.com/politica/partido-encuentro-solidario-cumple-asambleas-registro-in |url-status=live }}
Despite meeting the registration requirements, concern arose at the INE about the open participation of 15 registered religious ministers in six district assemblies{{Cite news |last=Radiel |first=Zedryk |date=September 5, 2020 |title=INE da registro a Encuentro Solidario; se lo niega a Elba Esther Gordillo |language=es |work=Animal Político |url=https://www.animalpolitico.com/2020/09/ine-da-registro-encuentro-solidario-injerencia-lideres-evangelicos/ |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118052231/https://www.animalpolitico.com/2020/09/ine-da-registro-encuentro-solidario-injerencia-lideres-evangelicos/ |url-status=live }} and Christian organizations, barred from political activity under the law. The result was a marathon session of the INE's General Council on September 5, 2020, which resulted in the board approving the registration of the new PES as a political party on a 6–5 vote; the majority voted to annul only the relevant assemblies, which still left the party over the minimum requirements of members and assemblies. Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, the head of the institute, called the involvement of religious ministers in party events "a direct and grave violation of the Constitution".{{r|animal}} INE councilor Ciro Murayama expressed dismay at the vote, highlighting that the secular state had been damaged and "the legacy of [Benito] Juárez emerges damaged" from the decision.{{Cite news |last=Monroy |first=Jorge |date=September 5, 2020 |title=INE da registro a Encuentro Solidario, antes PES, como partido político |work=El Economista |url=https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/INE-da-registro-a-Encuentro-Solidario-antes-PES-como-partido-politico-nacional---20200905-0001.html |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214074408/https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/INE-da-registro-a-Encuentro-Solidario-antes-PES-como-partido-politico-nacional---20200905-0001.html |url-status=live }} The party's registration was ratified by the TEPJF after it denied a challenge by the National Action Party to the INE decision on a 6–1 vote in October 2020.{{Cite news |last=Saúl Vela |first=David |date=October 14, 2020 |title=El PES está de regreso: Tribunal Electoral confirma registro de Encuentro Solidario |language=es |work=El Financiero |url=https://elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/el-pes-esta-de-regreso-tribunal-electoral-confirma-registro-de-encuentro-solidario |access-date=February 19, 2021}}
In the 2021 Mexican legislative election, PES achieved less than the 3% of the vote needed to keep its registry as a valid national party, so it lost its registry once again, as it previously did under the guise of the Social Encounter Party.{{Cite news |last=Vallejo |first=Guadalupe |date=June 9, 2021 |title=PES, Fuerza por México y RSP se encaminan a perder el registro como partidos |language=es |trans-title=PES, Fuerza por México and RSP headed for loss of their party registration |work=Expansión |url=https://politica.expansion.mx/mexico/2021/06/09/pes-fuerza-por-mexico-y-rsp-se-encaminan-a-perder-el-registro-como-partidos |access-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612165949/https://politica.expansion.mx/mexico/2021/06/09/pes-fuerza-por-mexico-y-rsp-se-encaminan-a-perder-el-registro-como-partidos |url-status=live }} The party lost its official national registration on August 30, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://latinus.us/2021/08/30/pes-redes-sociales-progresistas-fuerza-por-mexico-pierden-registro-ante-ine/|title=PES, Redes Sociales Progresistas y Fuerza por México pierden su registro ante el INE|language=es|work=LatinUS|date=August 30, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2021|archive-date=August 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831125051/https://latinus.us/2021/08/30/pes-redes-sociales-progresistas-fuerza-por-mexico-pierden-registro-ante-ine/|url-status=live}} It maintains registration in some states for subnational elections.
References
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Category:2020 establishments in Mexico
Category:2021 disestablishments in Mexico
Category:Conservative parties in Mexico
Category:Defunct political parties in Mexico
Category:Political parties established in 2020