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Mexico & Nafta - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Mancera shakes up cabinet
The mayor of Mexico City (the Distrito Federal [DF]), Miguel Ángel Mancera, has replaced nearly half of his 22-strong cabinet. Mancera was motivated by two considerations: the serious reverse suffered by the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) - for which he was elected in 2012 - in the municipal legislative assembly elections held along with the midterm federal legislative and state elections on 7 June; and the need to make a concerted effort to portray himself as a statesman capable of rising above petty party feuding ahead of a presumptive bid for the presidency in 2018.
