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Weekly Report - 06 March 2014 (WR-14-09)
MEXICO: Everything at stake in PAN leadership battle
The president of the right-wing opposition Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), Gustavo Madero, has announced that he will seek re-election to the post on 18 May. He will compete against Senator Ernesto Cordero. Although both men insist on the need for party unity, the campaign promises to be bitterly divisive. It is not just the future direction of the PAN at stake; the survival of the cross-party ‘Pact for Mexico’ reform agenda championed by President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the congressional approval of secondary legislation related to many of these reforms, also hinges on the outcome of the internal election. Cordero has been fiercely critical of Madero’s participation in the Pact.
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