Speaking of El Yunque: PAN's national executive committee, after nine months of deliberation, yesterday rejected the request by Ana Rosa Payán Cervera to be reincorporated into the party that she left three years ago.
Payán was twice PAN mayor of Merida, the first-even woman to hold the job, but upon her failure to get PAN's nomination for governor of Yucatán, loudly resigned from the party. In these of PAN-PRD alliances, it is worth recalling that PRD-PT-Convergencia for a moment thought of recruiting Payan as their gubernatorial candidate, but faced massive internal opposition within PRD: Payán, with other prominent panistas such as Manuel Espino, Cecilia Romero and Carlos Abascal Carranza, to just name a few, is a prominent member of El Yunque, and only became mayor of Merida through an alliance with this sinister organization and other local ultra-right outfits and media, and of course the church.
Yet that did not stop the "radical" PT and Convergencia from throwing the lot with her. Denied the nomination, Payán left the PAN and approached every party imaginable in Yucatán begging to be its nominee; PT and Convergencia jumped on the offer, and Payán ran on their label. It's hard to decide who is the most opportunistic - the ultra-right Payán joining PT and Convergencia, or the latter two, ostensibly left-wing parties, for embracing her. In any event, she finished with barely three percent of the vote.
Yet despite saying she's sorry - literally - to PAN, they have not forgotten her sharp attacks on her old party in 2007, and its executive committee refused to reincorporate her among its ranks. Even for the nominally catholic PAN, there are, it seems, limits to forgiveness.
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