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Weekly Report - 26 January 2012 (WR-12-04)

Peña Nieto drops Gordillo

The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) announced this week that it was ending its alliance with Elba Esther Gordillo’s Partido Nueva Alianza (Panal) for Mexico’s forthcoming presidential and congressional elections on 1 July. The decision is a huge gamble by the PRI and its de facto presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto. The political calculation is that the threat to PRI unity from the unrest the alliance with the Panal had caused was greater than the damage Gordillo and her political clout could do the PRI and Peña Nieto in the elections. Initially, at least, the gamble has paid off: none of the PRI’s (or more importantly, Peña Nieto’s) rivals have publicly courted Gordillo, and the resignations from the PRI (and thus the threat to party unity) appear to have stopped.

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