Milenio and La Jornada report on the launching of a "new" internal party current of the PRD, namely the Izquierda Renovadora en Movimiento. Their short-term memory fails them a tad here; led by Mexico City Secretary of Civil Protection Elías Miguel Moreno Brizuela, this is simply a relaunch of what was until recently called Izquierda en Movimiento, mimicking Ebrard's slogan for Mexico City, "Ciudad en Movimiento," which has been around since at least 2007 - it was launched officially during the PRD's 10th conference - and has periodically resurfaced with declarations that its main purpose is not promoting Ebrard's candidacy for 2012, which of course it always was and so remains. And just like Moreno Brizuela predicted in 2007 that the corriente would dethrone Nueva Izquierda as the principal party faction within the PRD, this new formation has similar pretensions, claiming that it already is the third largest within the PRD.
This "new" corriente, or official party faction, attracted key perredistas such as Martha Dalia Gastélum, formerly of Foro Nuevo Sol (another corriente squarely behind Ebrard, though Gastélum left it - or, alternatively, was kicked out, according to her FNS detractors) in order to back Ortega for PRD president over Encinas in 2008), José Antonio Rueda, formerly of Red Izquierda Revolucionaria (REDIR), and notably Horacio Duarte, who wants to be PRD's gubernatorial candidate in Mexico State in 2011. I've read earlier reports that Duarte's GAP faction of the PRD has already lined up behind AMLO's candidacy, which I found dubious. Rather, Duarte's presence may seem as a backing for Ebrard, in return for Ebrard backing Duarte's gubernatorial bid.
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