Morena
Mexican political party
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| 2024 | MORENA achieved a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 161 constituency seats and 75 party-list seats, with 6.48% and 42.40% of votes. Part of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia alliance, supporting Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential campaign, resulting in a MORENA–PT–PVEM supermajority. |
| 2024 | Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidential election with 61.18% of votes (35,924,519 votes) as part of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia alliance. In legislative elections, Morena secured a supermajority, winning 161 constituency seats and 75 party-list seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and 46 constituency seats and 14 party-list seats in the Senate. |
| October 1 2024 | Luisa María Alcalde Luján begins her term as leader of Morena, based in Mexico City |
| October 1 2024 | Claudia Sheinbaum officially takes office as president, succeeding Andrés Manuel López Obrador. |
| 2021 | In the legislative election, Morena (as part of Juntos Hacemos Historia coalition) won seven additional seats in the Chamber of Deputies. While maintaining a simple majority, the coalition failed to secure a two-thirds congressional supermajority. |
| 2021 | Morena participates in the Juntos Hacemos Historia alliance for the legislative election. |
| November 5 2020 | Mario Delgado Carrillo takes over leadership of Morena, representing Colima |
| January 26 2020 | Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar becomes leader of Morena, representing Zacatecas |
| 2019 | Judges on the Supreme Court took a 25% pay cut as part of MORENA's austerity measures to reduce salary disparities in government. |
| 2019 | Nine deputies from the PRD left their party and joined López Obrador's Morena-led government coalition, securing a two-thirds majority that enabled the passage of constitutional amendments. |
| May 17 2019 | López Obrador officially decreed the 'National Day against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia' in Mexico, marking a significant progressive social policy milestone for the MORENA party. |
| 2018 | In Senate elections, MORENA won 42 constituency seats and 13 party-list seats, representing 39.03% and 39.12% of votes as part of the Juntos Haremos Historia alliance. |
| 2018 | Morena forms the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition with the Labor Party and Social Encounter Party for the general election. |
| 2018 | López Obrador wins the presidency with 53% of the popular vote, and Morena wins a majority in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. |
| December 2017 | The political alliance 'Juntos Haremos Historia' (Together We Will Make History) was solidified, with Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the coalition's presidential nominee. |
| December 12 2017 | López Obrador registered as the party's presidential candidate and was succeeded as party leader by Yeidckol Polevnsky. |
| November 2017 | Discussions began with the right-wing Social Encounter Party (PES) about a potential political alliance. |
| October 2017 | At the PT's National Congress, an alliance between Morena and the Labor Party (PT) was formalized, with Alberto Anaya re-elected as party leader for another six-year term. |
| 2015 | Morena participated in legislative elections, winning 14 constituency seats and 21 party-list seats, positioning itself as an opposition party during Enrique Peña Nieto's presidency. |
| 2015 | Morena participated in its first legislative election as an official political party, winning 35 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, including 14 district seats and 21 proportional representation seats. |
| November 20 2015 | Andrés Manuel López Obrador takes over leadership of Morena from Martí Batres, representing Tabasco |
| 2014 | Morena officially registered as a political party in Mexico. |
| July 10 2014 | The National Electoral Institute (INE) officially approved Morena as a political party, granting it federal funds and eligibility to participate in the 2015 legislative election. |
| July 9 2014 | Martí Batres begins his term as leader of Morena political party in Mexico City |
| January 7 2014 | Martí Batres submitted documents to the National Electoral Institute (INE) for Morena's registration as a political party. |
| 2012 | López Obrador is nominated by the Progressive Movement coalition (PRD, PT, and MC) for the general election, with Morena achieving total coverage across 300 electoral districts. |
| November 20 2012 | Morena's first National Congress took place, formally transitioning from a civil association to a political party. During this congress, party statutes and action plan were approved, 300 councillors were elected to the National Council, and Martí Batres was selected as president of the National Executive Committee. |
| September 9 2012 | López Obrador departs from the PRD due to growing disagreements over the party's potential legislative alliance with the PAN, which he criticized as a betrayal of the people. |
| October 2 2011 | Morena is officially founded as a civil association, with López Obrador claiming nearly four million supporters within nine months of its inception. |
| January 10 2011 | López Obrador calls for the formation of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), a citizen network aimed at defending the vote in the upcoming general election. |
| 2010 | PRD, PT, and Convergence form alliances with the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) in several key gubernatorial races, further separating López Obrador and his allies from the party. |
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