Weekly Report - 24 November 2011 (WR-11-47)

MEXICO | PRI  problems. Members of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Puebla are threatening legal action to overturn the deal hatched by the party president, Humberto Moreira, to ally the PRI with the Partido Verde Ecologista de México and the Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal) in the 2012 elections. The Puebla priístas say that the price of the deal, congressional seats for Greens and panalistas, is too high. Puebla is important because it was one of the states that the PRI lost in 2010 to an alliance (headed by a dissident priísta, Rafael Moreno Valle) composed of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and Panal. The Puebla priístas are threatening to take the party to the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación which recently ruled against a similar deal by the PAN: they add that priístas in five other states could follow their lead.

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