[7] However, a change in legal representative on October 9, 2019, less than a year after its foundation, portended a shift in the party's power base, after the executive committee replaced Peña Neder with José Fernando González Sánchez, son-in-law of powerful—but corrupt[8]—teachers' union leader Elba Esther Gordillo.

[1] González Sánchez and René Fujikawa, a former federal deputy for the defunct New Alliance Party that was also tied to Esther, had been present at RSP's first official act.

Party leader González Sánchez decried what he saw as last-minute changes in the INE's own requirements and imposing additional ones relating to finances;[11] he noted that political observers would find such an arrangement "unthinkable".

[17] Despite having been founded as a party close to president Andrés Manuel López Obrador—to the point of having his likeness on the banner at the first party official event[9]—as the 2021 election has come closer, Redes Sociales Progresistas instead sought to cater to center-left[6] voters dissatisfied with the López Obrador administration, notably disagreeing with National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) policies on the energy industry[18] and calling for a "new green pact".

[19] In January 2021, RSP nominated two transgender women, Fernanda Salomé Perera Trejo and Melany Macías Cortés, as candidates to run for Governor of Zacatecas and as a federal deputy from the state, respectively.