Gerardo Fernández Noroña

José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña (born 19 March 1960) is a Mexican politician and sociologist from the Labor Party (formerly from the Party of the Democratic Revolution).

from 1977 to 1983, he earned a degree in Sociology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UNAM).

He was an external candidate for federal representative for the Mexican Socialist Party in 1988 and joined the National Democratic Front (DFN), before it became the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

In 1995 he led the creation of the Citizen Assembly in Defense of Bank Debtors, an organization that defended those who, due to the economic crisis suffered that year in Mexico, had seen their debts multiply by their bank loans.

Since then, he has led the protests that They would later have it recognized, including one in 1996 in Cancún in front of the then president Ernesto Zedillo, for which he was imprisoned for a few days, but he was released shortly after because the then national president of the PRD, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, intervened.

He continued in the grassroots organization for the party until 2004, the year in which he was named communications secretary of the national executive committee of the PRD headed by Leonel Cota Montaño and therefore became spokesperson for the party.

He is known for his protest acts especially starting with the 2006 presidential election.

During the 2006 presidential campaigns, during the post-electoral conflict that followed, he held protests against the electoral fraud denounced by his party and its candidate Andrés López, as well as in places where the then president Vicente Fox and later Felipe Calderón were.

He was a federal deputy on two occasions between 2009 and 2012, and since 2018 he has been nominated by the PT to run as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic within the Together We Make History coalition for the 2024 federal elections

From 2009 to 2012 Fernández Noroña served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District.

His conflicts with members of the Presidential General Staff during the Calderón administration stemmed from his numerous demonstrations at official functions that he attended.

In 2009, he was already a deputy when he was denied access to the third government report.

He accused the Calderón government of causing these incidents and alleged death threats.

As a deputy once more, he was barred from viewing Enrique Peña Nieto's most recent government report, which was produced at the National Palace, and he also encountered federal police personnel as a result of his protests.

In August 2012, Fernández Noroña began a tour to promote a movement against the triumph of the candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Enrique Peña Niet.

Furthermore, he proposes the creation of a new left-wing political party; "Movimiento de Izquierda Libertaria".

On September 15, 2012, an assembly was held in the Zócalo of Mexico City in which Balfre Vargas Cortez, Rosendo Marín Díaz and Gerardo Fernández Noroña announced what they called " Appeal to the people of Mexico ", a document in which drafted the action plan against an alleged imposition by Peña Nieto through peaceful civil disobedience.

On April 1, 2015, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, leader of the National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico (ÁNIMO), was an (external) candidate for multi-member federal deputy for the Labor Party (PT).

Fernández Noroña carried out a national campaign, calling to vote and supporting the PT candidates.

He concentrated his campaign on visiting with particular emphasis the fourth district, for which he was a candidate, and which includes the Federal District, Puebla, Guerrero, Morelos and Tlaxcala.

In reference to the alliance that the Labor Party made in some entities with the PRI and the PAN, Fernández Noroña stressed that these alliances are local, he does not agree with them, and that he would only go as a PT candidate.

He also expressed that despite strong pressure, the PT has remained firm by not agreeing to sign the Pact for Mexico and by voting against all structural reforms.

In 2016, he denounced the aggression and theft of cell phones by the undersecretary of government of Puebla, Luis Arturo Cornejo, in the administration of Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, when he was trying to mediate to free political prisoners.

He again served in the Chamber of Deputies, starting in 2018, representing Mexico City, elected in the Labor Party.

in September 2023, Noroña was appointed by Claudia Sheinbaum to be in charge of coordination tasks and strengthening the link with social organizations and civilians and a key spokesperson for the Juntos Hacemos Historia coalition in the 2024 general elections.