Mexico State PRD branch votes - again - in favor of PAN alliance, but it is a swan song

The Mexico State branch of the PRD, following the recent referendum over a PRD-PAN alliance, voted again in favor of them. The vote, in the PRD's state council, was 158-92, with 12 abstentions.

While the PRD state branch does not need a 2/3 vote, the national party branch does, and the pro-alliance forces look increasingly unlikely to achieve that number. Consequently, the PRD-PAN alliance by now appears a lost cause, in the long run due to the incessant and effective opposition by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but more immediately due to the apparent abandonment by Marcelo Ebrard of the project.

Despite having been a long-time active proponent of PRD-PAN alliances, Ebrard has recently rallied behind the man he thought might be convinced into running on a joint PRD-PAN platform - Alejandro Encinas - but his rejection of this proposal effectively leaves a common candidacy dead.