Via the LAT: Mexico’s PAN and PRD: Love letters in the making?
The political world is abuzz with the possibility of an election year alliance between the conservative National Action Party of President Felipe Calderon and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, whose members are so miffed over Calderon’s disputed win in 2006 that they still refuse to recognize him as president.
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The idea under discussion is for Calderon’s party, known as the PAN, and the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, to unite behind the same gubernatorial candidate in states where the PRI has long ruled and is favored to win again. By combining forces, the thinking goes, the two parties could assemble enough votes to dislodge the PRI.
Interesting, although according to the piece the enthusiasm for such alliances isn’t shared with some party elites. And while one can understand the desire to defeat the PRI, the PAN and PRD hardly have a shared policy agenda.
