The Coahuila branch of the PRD just voted in favor of going in an alliance with the PAN for the upcoming gubernatorial election in the state. Likely candidate: Guillermo Anaya Llamas of the PAN.
The battle to beat the incumbent PRI - the current governor, on "leave of absence" as PRI president, wants to make his brother the next governor - is in any case an uphill one, yet it certainly makes more sense for the PRD to rally behind a PAN candidate than the other way around: In 2009, the PRD barely pulled 3 percent of the vote in the state, against around 21 for the PAN and 60 percent for the PRD.
Yet if even an alliance candidate is a long shot - though a shot - going with a separate candidate is purely testimonial. That doesn't stop AMLO, who recently declared that regardless of what the PRD decides, his candidate will be Jesús González Schmal, presumably on a PT and Convergencia label.
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