The Social Encounter Party was founded in 2006 by Dr.
Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes, a pastor of a
Neo-Pentecostal church that supported
Felipe Calderón in the
2006 presidential election. It had previously been a "national political grouping", which does not receive public funding. The party made many of its early successes in the state of
Baja California. In 2007, it supported the successful candidacy of
José Guadalupe Osuna Millán of the
PAN, but in 2013, it allied with the
PRI in Baja California instead, which led it to elect a state deputy to a district in
Tecate and four council members in
Tijuana. In July 2014, it obtained federal registry. After doing so, eight of its nine political assemblies were nullified, as bribes were given to attendees.
Coalition with MORENA On 24 June 2017, the PT approved to stand for election in 2018 in an electoral alliance with MORENA; however the coalition was not officially registered before the
National Electoral Institute, the electoral authorities of the country. For MORENA, the alliance was facilitated as a result of
Óscar González Yáñez, the PT gubernatorial candidate in the State of Mexico, withdrawing from the race and endorsing MORENA candidate
Delfina Gómez Álvarez. At first, there was speculation about the possibility of a front grouping all the leftist parties: MORENA, PRD, PT and
Citizens' Movement (MC). However, Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected any kind of agreement due to political differences, especially after the elections in the State of Mexico, when the candidates of the PRD and MC continued with their campaigns refusing to support the candidate of MORENA. At the end of November 2017, the leaders of MORENA and the PES announced that they were in talks to form a possible alliance. In this sense, Hugo Eric Flores said, "We don't negotiate with the PRI, we have two options, go alone or with MORENA."
Confirmation On December 13, the coalition between MORENA, the PT and the PES was formalized under the name
Juntos Haremos Historia (English: Together we will make history). Following the signing of the agreement, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was appointed as a pre-candidate for the three political formations. It was a partial coalition that promoted López Obrador as a presidential candidate and, with respect to the legislative elections: MORENA was assigned to choose candidates in 150 federal electoral districts and 32 districts to the Senate; PT was assigned to choose 75 deputies and 16 senators, and the PES was assigned to choose 75 deputies and 16 senators. The alliance has received criticism as it was a coalition between two leftist parties (MORENA and the PT) with a formation related to the evangelical right (PES). In response, the national president of MORENA,
Yeidckol Polevnsky, mentioned that her party believes in inclusion, joint work to "rescue Mexico" and that they will continue to defend human rights, while Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes, national president of the PES, mentioned that "the only possibility of real change in our country is the one headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador" and that his party had decided to be "on the right side of history."
Results and dissolution The results for the
Juntos Haremos Historia coalition were strong; López Obrador was elected president in a landslide victory, as well as winning five of the nine state governorships (one of them for PES candidate
Cuauhtémoc Blanco in
Morelos), and the coalition resulted in the election of 55 federal deputies and 7 senators belonging to the party. However, the party failed to attract three percent of the vote in the elections for president, federal deputies, and senators, which under Mexican law prompts the loss of its federal registry and the appointment of a liquidator by the
INE to dispose of the national party's assets. The PES and
New Alliance Party, the other party to lose its registry after the 2018 elections, challenged the results to no avail and on 3 September 2018, the party was dissolved as it had not reached the 3% of the national vote.
Reincarnation in 2020 PES was reborn as the
Solidarity Encounter Party (
Partido Encuentro Solidario), using the same initials, and granted preliminary recognition to participate in the
2021 Mexican legislative election on September 2, 2020. ==Policy positions==