With no opposing votes and merely one abstention, the national executive committee of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) voted in favor of "exploring" an alliance with the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) in the state of Mexico.
While this outcome was a foregone decision, it is of note that PAN national president César Neva revealed that PAN is also having talks with the Partido del Trabajo (PT) and Convergencia, the two smaller parties aligned with AMLO and who like him publicly and loudly reject any electoral alliance with PAN in Mexico State. It indicates that should a PAN-PRD common candidate materialize, significant sections of both parties may break with AMLO's intransigent line to support the candidate rather than any quixotic run by AMLO's "own" left-wing candidate.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
From Ebrard: NO means NO for alliance with PAN for presidency. Will AMLO take note?
It didn't seem to matter how many times national PRD leader Jésus Ortega declared that PRD will not seek a common presidential candidate for 2012: AMLO and his "radical" supporters keep on existing that this is really the ulterior motive of the PAN-PRD talks to launch a common candidate in 2011 in Mexico State.
Yet now Marcelo Ebrard, in Spain for events relating to the Spanish Civil War, yesterday again made it very clear that an alliance with PAN for the presidency would not be "logical" or "desirable": The parties are far too different; the electoral alliances at the state levels follow a very different logic.
To repeat: There will NOT be an alliance with PAN at the national level for 2012. There won't. The PRD will not have a common candidate with PAN for 2012. They won't. PAN.And.PRD.Will.Not.Ally.In.2012.
Will AMLO finally take notice and stop accusing the PRD of planning this?
Yet now Marcelo Ebrard, in Spain for events relating to the Spanish Civil War, yesterday again made it very clear that an alliance with PAN for the presidency would not be "logical" or "desirable": The parties are far too different; the electoral alliances at the state levels follow a very different logic.
To repeat: There will NOT be an alliance with PAN at the national level for 2012. There won't. The PRD will not have a common candidate with PAN for 2012. They won't. PAN.And.PRD.Will.Not.Ally.In.2012.
Will AMLO finally take notice and stop accusing the PRD of planning this?
Mexico Supreme Court squashes Ulises Ruis' attempt to evade auditing
While Ulises Ruiz is still enjoys impunity as governor of Oaxaca (given the ridiculously long transition period in this and other states), a ruling by Mexican Supreme Court suggests that he might be in trouble soon after leaving office.
In July, the state congress steamrolled through, among other "covering-the-back-of-an-outgoing-governor legislation," a change to state law that in essence declared that major aspects of Ruiz' government could not be audited. The Supreme Court finally threw out the ruling yesterday, given that the PRI-dominated legislature broke a series of legal procedures in the process, and declared it unconstitutional.
Ulises Ruiz is one step closer to finally answering for the mismanagement during his 2004-2010 disastrous government.
In July, the state congress steamrolled through, among other "covering-the-back-of-an-outgoing-governor legislation," a change to state law that in essence declared that major aspects of Ruiz' government could not be audited. The Supreme Court finally threw out the ruling yesterday, given that the PRI-dominated legislature broke a series of legal procedures in the process, and declared it unconstitutional.
Ulises Ruiz is one step closer to finally answering for the mismanagement during his 2004-2010 disastrous government.
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