Politics: Rocky Start to 2015 Campaign

MEXICO - Report 21 Jan 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Last week produced numerous reminders of the internal party divisions plaguing the opposition. The center-right PAN rebuffed the request of Margarita Zavala to run for Congress, prompting the wife of ex Mexican President Felipe Calderón and former member of Congress to announce that she will mount a bid for party chairman later this year. This was just the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between the dominant force in the party, led by national chairman-on-leave Gustavo Madero, and the calderonistas. In even greater disarray is the PRD, which continues to lose prominen...

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