For all those who might have harbored a suspicion that AMLO might be bluffing - he never does - with his earlier announcement that he would back a separate candidate in the upcoming Mexico State gubernatorial election, Sunday's rally in Toluca should lay these doubts to rest. Having completed yet another tour of Mexico State's 124 municipalities, the last one remaining was the state capital. Here, in front of a crowd of thousands of supporters, he announced his candidate will be chosen by a "poll." As it stands, the four choices appear to be Horacio Duarte (PRD), Alejandro Gertz Manero (Convergencia), Yeidckol Polenvsky (PRD), and Óscar González Yáñez (PT). The chosen one will need to literally sign on to AMLO's program - talk about candidate independence! - that he has deemed "10 Commitments." They are:
• Promote job creation
• Establish unemployment insurance
• Loans and grants for rural producers
• Meal centers/eateries
• Universal pension to elderly
• Medical care to people without social security
• Scholarships to students from poor education
• Construction and improvement of housing in deprived areas
• Programme of public services in poor neighborhoods
• Better roads and construction of three subway lines
As soon as the candidate is chosen - and this could be by opinion poll, a primary, or, in AMLO's conception of democracy, a public plebiscite of hand-raising - AMLO will hit the road again for another round of Mexico State's 125 municipalities. He is truly putting everything in this fight against his old party, and clearly believes that should a PAN-PRD candidacy, to which he is utterly opposed, come out winning, his chances at the 2012 presidency are shot.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
AMLO's erklärungsproblem: PAN-PRD alliance in Mexico draws broad support
AMLO continues his tireless quest to sink the PAN-PRD alliance in Mexico State, denouncing the top PRD leadership as in cahoots with Calderón and utterly unrepresentative of the party as a whole, which he claims is universally rejecting a PAN-PRD common candidate.
Yet this weekend, the state branches of the PRD and PAN in Mexico State held their first mass meeting to debate the possible alliance, which also attracted a considerable contingent of PT and Convergencia supporters. The leadership of the these two parties had actually earlier announced their presence in the event, held in Nezahualcóyotl, but pressure from AMLO very likely forced them to desist from attending.
The Mexico State rumor mill has it that quite a few cadres from at least Convergencia are actually keen to join the PRD-PAN alliance, even though Convergencia n Friday presented Alejandro Gertz Manero, who was President Vicente Fox' first Secretary of Public Security, as its own candidate. In attendance was also Gabino Cué, the Convergencia candidate who won the Oaxaca gubernatorial elections heading an alliance that also included PAN, though Cué notably distanced himself from the leadership in that event, making it clear that he supports a PAN-PRD alliance in Mexico State.
Similarly , the PAN-PRD event yesterday also drew another highly popular alliancistas , the highly popular Xóchitl Gálvez, who most recently ran as gubernatorial candidate in Hidalgo, elections whose outcome are still disputed (The PT, to be sure, also backed her, until AMLO then commanded the party to desist).
All in all I think it is fair to say that AMLO's claim that the supporters of a PAN-PRD alliance are only found at the very top echelon of the PRD, is simply not true. In Mexico State, given the increasing support for a common candidate to beat the PRI, he has, in fine German, an erklärungsproblem.
Yet this weekend, the state branches of the PRD and PAN in Mexico State held their first mass meeting to debate the possible alliance, which also attracted a considerable contingent of PT and Convergencia supporters. The leadership of the these two parties had actually earlier announced their presence in the event, held in Nezahualcóyotl, but pressure from AMLO very likely forced them to desist from attending.
The Mexico State rumor mill has it that quite a few cadres from at least Convergencia are actually keen to join the PRD-PAN alliance, even though Convergencia n Friday presented Alejandro Gertz Manero, who was President Vicente Fox' first Secretary of Public Security, as its own candidate. In attendance was also Gabino Cué, the Convergencia candidate who won the Oaxaca gubernatorial elections heading an alliance that also included PAN, though Cué notably distanced himself from the leadership in that event, making it clear that he supports a PAN-PRD alliance in Mexico State.
Similarly , the PAN-PRD event yesterday also drew another highly popular alliancistas , the highly popular Xóchitl Gálvez, who most recently ran as gubernatorial candidate in Hidalgo, elections whose outcome are still disputed (The PT, to be sure, also backed her, until AMLO then commanded the party to desist).
All in all I think it is fair to say that AMLO's claim that the supporters of a PAN-PRD alliance are only found at the very top echelon of the PRD, is simply not true. In Mexico State, given the increasing support for a common candidate to beat the PRI, he has, in fine German, an erklärungsproblem.
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