Sunday, March 6, 2011

Calderón comment makes front pages: PAN open for non-party presidential candidate

It's quite a feat: Calderón made the front pages of La Jornada, Milenio, and El Universal today. The reason was this statement:
“From now on, I respectfully suggested that we all devote ourselves to see, in every electoral district, in every state, and in every elected office, who truly, a party member or not, can answert to the attribute of being the the best, because what is at stake is nothing less than the future of the country, and not only the future of the government of PAN."
One should not jump to the conclusion that PAN has decided to go for a non-party presidential candidate for the 2012 contest, and the declaration was really made in the general context of Calderón giving the "go!" for the 2012 presidential context.

Yet notable it is, regardless of how one looks at it, in particular with Gustavo Madero, the PAN's national leader, soon thereafter declaring that he will push for the party to change its internal rules so as to "open it up to the citizenry."

After Ernesto Cordero basically shot himself in the foot with his idiotic recent comment on how-to-survive-on-6000-pesos, does Calderón have a particular non-PAN candidate in mind?

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