The timing may certainly seem peculiar, even if it was in response to a current event: Mere days to go before the Guerrero election, after it was known that PAN candidate Marcos Efrén Parra would decline in favor of Ángel Aguirre Rivero, AMLO immediately pronounced that the hastily patched PAN-PRD agreement was "treason" - a term AMLO tends to hurl around at anything he is in discordance with.
Note that the PRD-PAN hardly even agreed to an "alliance" in Guerrero, these intra-party alliances forged elsewhere that AMLO so ardently opposes, yet rather that the PAN candidate would decline in favor of the PRD candidate, asking his voters to cross the ballot for PRD rather than PAN (it is too late to remove Parra from the ballot).
What good does this serve? While it is hardly possible to measure the impact, clearly AMLO's disqualifications do not benefit the Aguirre campaign, but harm it. AMLO, to recall, earlier even noted his support for Aguirre, and while he failed to campaign for him (Aguirre didn't want to sign the "10 commandments" AMLO has obligated candidates elsewhere to agree to, as he simply didn't agree with several of them, such as the cancellation of a major hydroelectric dam project).
Yet AMLO's decision, which can only hurt Aguirre's chances, do follow their own logic: He would rather see a PAN-PRD alliance fail than to be successful, as he has staked pretty much his entire political capital on opposing them.
In the process, he is, of course, running the PRI's errand. The El Universal headline that reported on AMLO's condemnation is very, very telling in this regard: "AMLO and Peña Nieto criticize the Guerrero alliances." Unlikely bedfellows, yet bedfellows all the same.
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