AMLO's Alternative Project for the Nation Reloaded

The event certainly allowed for some impressive pictures: the National Auditorium, filled with what La Jornada reports to be 9,000 attendees:

                                         Photo from La Jornada

AMLO launched his 2012 bid like in 2005, with an Alternative Project for the Nation, which reads pretty much just like his 2005 manifest. Yes, there are some new additions (this article sums them up well), but from what I can see, this is much the same program as that underpinning his first presidential campaign.

(From La Jornada, a paper that has unfortunately in the case of AMLO long since discarded any semblance of objectivity and rather functions as his unofficial mouthpiece, here's AMLO's speech in its entirety. And can any piece really be any more groveling than this "report" by Jaime Avilés?)

It is not that it is really a bad program - and as various observers have pointed out, it is in many ways quite centrist (more on this later). But so was his 2005 program. It is rather AMLO's discourse and lack of respect for the democratic process that people rightly perceive as "radical."

In any event: AMLO in addition, he reiterated the now-standard line to "not be confused" - the PAN and PRI are all the same. As this remains a key argument why he (now, as opposed to in the past) opposes any PRD-PAN tactical electoral alliance, it simply begs the question: If PAN and PRI all the same, why would PRI's return be so qualitatively worse than the current PAN administration?