Former lawmaker switches parties.

Former National Action Party Assemblyman Armando Terán announced the departure of the political party that raise him to his Assembly seat.

He also made public the joining of the Citizen’s Movement Party, or MC in Spanish.

In a press release, MC state Chair Alcibíades García Lizardi said Terán Corella’s arrival to the institution strengthens and dignifies the principles of his party previous to next year’s Mexico’s presidential election and the state gubernatorial election of 2019.

Terán Corella was son of former Governor Héctor Terán, nicknamed “The Gentleman of Politics,” who died in office in 1998 three years into his six-year period. “Héctor Terán left us a legacy of simplicity, humility and honesty — an example we must retake to honor politics,” García Lizardi said.

The former lawmaker said his decision was based in his belief in social democracy and his trust in a great movement that can unite the efforts and feelings of the majority of Mexicans.

Terán Corella said he has observed businesses in power and the power of businesses.

However, his new political party was questioned during former Mexicali Mayor Jaime Díaz term under allegations of millionaire businesses made through a mechanic shop called Racota, where many patrol cars were sent for repairs that were never made.

“Corruption at the National Action Party and the Institutional Revolutionary Party has caused many damages and we need more citizens,” García Lizardi said. “Residents are tired of bad governments.”

The party chair said there are conditions for a change in state power after five periods of National Action Party governors.

Lawyer Juan Manuel Molina, another former member of the National Action Party, was elected as state lawmaker during the last Legislative Session under the MC, a party joined by former PRI Mexicali mayoral candidate Elí Topete, who lost the municipal election in 2013.