PRD and the PT announced the formation of new cross-party group in the Mexican Senate whose main mission is to promote the presidential candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The group include 12 out of PRD's 25 senators, though most of the names are hardly a surprise, but are rather those senators that AMLO managed to install as his candidates in 2006:
*Julio César Aguirre Méndez, Josefina Cota, José Luis Máximo García Zalvidea, Jesús Garibay García, Arturo Herviz Reyes, Salomón Jara, Rosalinda López, Arturo Núñez, Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz, María Roj, and lfonso Sánchez Anaya and Tomás Torres.
Two additional senators, Carlos Sotelo and Pablo Gómez, however, have never been close to AMLO; indeed, the latter did all he could to employ dirty tricks to prevent AMLO for running for the Mexico City government back in 2000, claiming he didn't fulfill the residency requirement. Gómez gained further noteriority in 2003 when the clumsy, stubborn, and utterly idiotic manner in which he negotiated with other parties in Congress basically led to the PRD having no impact on choosing the IFE councilors elected that year. I suspect his joining the AMLO camp has to do with a promise that he will be a new Senate coordinator for the PRD's group. Carlos Sotelo was a big name in Nueva Izquierda, the majority faction to which national party president Jesús Ortega won, and his break with NI a while back was undoubtedly a blow to Ortega. Should he join with the pejistas to remove current coordinator Carlos Navarrete, of Nueva Izquierda, Gómez is likely to lead the group (though Tomás Torres has sought to do so as well).
It would be a major strike for AMLO if this were to happen.
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