Gordillo's decision chimes with statements from the PRI party president, Roberto Madrazo. Gordillo said that the priorities for the PRI in the next congress, which convenes at the beginning of September, will be agricultural policy, reducing unemployment and reducing the costs of democracy. Gordillo said that she was convinced that what Mexico needed was pragmatic reforms, but that this did not necessarily mean a swerve away from neo-liberalism.
Gordillo claimed that the PRI would be the reform party in the new congress (the 59th). But the areas where she envisaged reform were not those wanted by the government. It wants energy and electricity reforms. Gordillo relegated these issues towards the bottom of the PRI's list of priorities, arguing that law and order, employment, and health were more important.
Separately, the PRI itself is in a bit of muddle over whether Gordillo should be allowed continue as the party's secretary general and thus number two to Madrazo. The problem is that most of the likely candidates have already held the job and the party constitution has an absolute ban on reappointments.
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