Despite his much-publicized threats to "ask for a leave of absence" from the party, AMLO declared he will still remain within the PRD, despite the massive 2/3 vote in the Mexico State local branch in favor of opening up for an alliance with PAN:
"We are not leaving the party; let it be clear that it is they who will have to leave, not us."
As noted before, AMLO knows well that an expulsion from the PRD would be far more advantageous to him simply leaving, so he is moving forward, announcing that he will still present his own candidate for the upcoming gubernatorial elections. The two most likely bets are Senator Yeidckol Polevnsky and PRD deputy Alejandro Encinas, though I strongly doubt that Encinas really want to take the drastic step of breaking so directly with the party he helped found.
In any case, Marcelo Ebrard, AMLO's rival for the 2012 nomination, noted that the local PRD branch's decision was "logical," which indeed it was, if the main goal remains to defeat a PRI candidate in Mexico State and, by extension, Peña Nieto in 2012. One should also take note that Juan Ramón de la Fuente, who is muy presidenciable, also backed the alliances: So much for the hopes of PRI to make him their Mexico City mayor, as El Universal's paranoid-megalomaniac-in-chief Ricardo Alemán earlier claimed a likely scenario.
The question is now how to get past those tricky residency requirements to make de la Fuente a candidate in Edomex...
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