Alas: Even Encinas a "unity candidate" of the PRD. The death of primaries.

I'll be the first to admit that Alejandro Encinas is PRD's best card at having a shot at the Mexico State governorship, even though those chances appear much dimmer given what is at least the official end to a PRD-PAN electoral alliance in the entity. However, rather than going through any kind of party vote or primary, Encinas was simply pronounced to be PRD's "unity" candidate by its National Political Commission (CPN).

All the three main parties in Mexico State, then,  resorted to "unity" candidates; the PAN, most recently, designated Luis Felipe Bravo Mena its gubernatorial hopeful.

This certainly makes any criticism of PRI for the dedazo designation of  Eruviel Ávila ring hollow: The PRD, in the end, chose its candidate in what is in essence the exact same manner.