The three left-leaning parties in Mexico, PRD, PT and Convergencia agreed on a common candidate for governor of Guerrero. This is important: The division among the left in Guerrero in last year's federal election was partly responsible for the PRD's loss of 8 out of 9 majority districts, and the year before its loss of the all-important mayorship of Acapulco, which PRI candidate Manuel Añorve Baños retook.
(on a side note, Añorve Baños' recently declared candidacy to be governor of Guerrero illustrates a practice I find absolutely abhorrent: That politicians, regardless of what party they belong to, merely serve a year or so [1.5. in the case of Añorve Baños] in the office in which they were elected, and then immediately use it as a trampoline for a higher office, in this case the governorship. I hope the Acapulco voters that were ditched by Añorve Baños will take note of this).
"Pre-candidates" of the PRD are local deputy Armando Ríos Piter, a Zeferino-type perredista (like the governor, he refuses to become a PRD member), and Federal Senator David Jiménez Rumbo, who was very close to the murdered favorite gubernatorial candidate Armando Chavarría. One dark-horse candidate to keep an eye out for is former federal deputy Cuauhtemoc Sandoval Ramirez, which I find a much better pick than the other two.
However, my hunch is that the eventual nomination will go to Luis Walton Aburto, current national president of Convergencia , a nominally left-leaning yet ultra-opportunistic party (it went with PAN in 2005 in the State of Mexico, yet jumped on the AMLO bandwagon in order to obtain enough votes to keep its national party registry), after Luis Maldonado stepped down this January. (Both, to note, were lifelong members of PRI until ditching it to set up their current outfit, adding more anecdotal evidence to the argument that most Mexican politicians carry a priísta within them).
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