The "return" of Carlos Salinas to active politics in Mexico has long been heralded - following AMLO, Salinas is the mover behind every one of Mexico´s ills - yet the claim appears increasingly justified. Not only did he issue yet-another book seeking to varnish his tattered presidency; according to Milenio, his recent visit to Yucatán, where he met with his admirer, PRI Governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco, had as its further purpose to entice Ortega Pacheco to be Humberto Moreira´s running mate for the PRI presidency, as secretary general.
It makes perfect sense: Ortega Pacheco is in many ways the female equivalent of the Mexico State governor; like Peña Nieto, she has spent an exorbitant amount on the media promotion of her image; like Peña Nieto, she has also used her majority in the local state congress to steamroll a range of legislative initiative, ignoring input from the opposition. The most recent example of this happened just days ago, when the congress approved, in relation with the state budget, a whopping 217 articles in 48 hours.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Saying 'sorry' is not enough: PAN rejects readmitting Ana Rosa Payán
Speaking of El Yunque: PAN's national executive committee, after nine months of deliberation, yesterday rejected the request by Ana Rosa Payán Cervera to be reincorporated into the party that she left three years ago.
Payán was twice PAN mayor of Merida, the first-even woman to hold the job, but upon her failure to get PAN's nomination for governor of Yucatán, loudly resigned from the party. In these of PAN-PRD alliances, it is worth recalling that PRD-PT-Convergencia for a moment thought of recruiting Payan as their gubernatorial candidate, but faced massive internal opposition within PRD: Payán, with other prominent panistas such as Manuel Espino, Cecilia Romero and Carlos Abascal Carranza, to just name a few, is a prominent member of El Yunque, and only became mayor of Merida through an alliance with this sinister organization and other local ultra-right outfits and media, and of course the church.
Yet that did not stop the "radical" PT and Convergencia from throwing the lot with her. Denied the nomination, Payán left the PAN and approached every party imaginable in Yucatán begging to be its nominee; PT and Convergencia jumped on the offer, and Payán ran on their label. It's hard to decide who is the most opportunistic - the ultra-right Payán joining PT and Convergencia, or the latter two, ostensibly left-wing parties, for embracing her. In any event, she finished with barely three percent of the vote.
Yet despite saying she's sorry - literally - to PAN, they have not forgotten her sharp attacks on her old party in 2007, and its executive committee refused to reincorporate her among its ranks. Even for the nominally catholic PAN, there are, it seems, limits to forgiveness.
Payán was twice PAN mayor of Merida, the first-even woman to hold the job, but upon her failure to get PAN's nomination for governor of Yucatán, loudly resigned from the party. In these of PAN-PRD alliances, it is worth recalling that PRD-PT-Convergencia for a moment thought of recruiting Payan as their gubernatorial candidate, but faced massive internal opposition within PRD: Payán, with other prominent panistas such as Manuel Espino, Cecilia Romero and Carlos Abascal Carranza, to just name a few, is a prominent member of El Yunque, and only became mayor of Merida through an alliance with this sinister organization and other local ultra-right outfits and media, and of course the church.
Yet that did not stop the "radical" PT and Convergencia from throwing the lot with her. Denied the nomination, Payán left the PAN and approached every party imaginable in Yucatán begging to be its nominee; PT and Convergencia jumped on the offer, and Payán ran on their label. It's hard to decide who is the most opportunistic - the ultra-right Payán joining PT and Convergencia, or the latter two, ostensibly left-wing parties, for embracing her. In any event, she finished with barely three percent of the vote.
Yet despite saying she's sorry - literally - to PAN, they have not forgotten her sharp attacks on her old party in 2007, and its executive committee refused to reincorporate her among its ranks. Even for the nominally catholic PAN, there are, it seems, limits to forgiveness.
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