The PRD of Mexico State are meeting today to decide finally on the possibility of going in alliance with other parties, principally the Partido Acción Nacional, for the 2011 gubernatorial elections in the state. Ahead of the meeitng of the PRD state council, state party president Luis Sánchez Jiménez asked the party's Comisión de Garantías y Vigilancia, or internal watchdog on rules and procedure, to decide on whether the council requires a simple majority or 2/3 majority vote to approve the alliances.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, however, has already declared that regardless of the outcome of the vote, he will reject such an alliance, dismissing in the process the the right of the party branch to decide for itself whether to go in an alliance or not, and that he moreover will ask for a "leave of absence" from the PRD - a term that simply does not exist; one is either a member of the party or one is not. More of consequence, Alejandro Encinas, who had earlier denied that he was seeking the nomination for PRD governor, now says he will only run as head of a PRD-PT-Convergencia coalition. That is, should the PRD state council this weekend decide to launch a common candidate with PAN to seek to defeat PRI and its 81-year grip on power in Mexico State, AMLO will launch his own candidate and that will likely be Encinas. In the process, however, the left might well be destroyed in the the state of Mexico, allowing for a PRI successor to Enrique Peña Nieto, and for Peña Nieto to return PRI to the presidency in 2012.
As I believe Winston Churchill once observed, there are wars, there are civil wars, and then there are... internal party wars - the latter being the most vicious of all.
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