PAN Prepares for Leadership Contest

MEXICO - Report 11 Mar 2014 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary On May 18, the 218,000 members of the National Action Party (PAN) will be entitled to cast ballots for the next party chairman, its general secretary and the organization’s 12-member National Executive Committee. Now that 2012 presidential nominee Josefina Vázquez Mota has decided not to seek the chairmanship, and former Guanajuato State Governor Juan Manuel Oliva has thrown his support behind Senator Ernesto Cordero, the campaign essentially becomes a two-man race pitting Cordero and the other Calderónistas (associated with former Mexican President Felipe Calderón) agains...

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