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Weekly Report - 31 May 2012 (WR-12-21)

MEXICO: Presidential candidates get dusting down

If any of the four presidential candidates felt like the first television debate in early May had provided their sternest test they were quickly disabused on 28 May. The debate was merely a gentle skirmish compared with the full frontal attacks that each of them faced during an event organised by the Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (MPJD), led by the poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia, and attended by relatives of victims of Mexico’s struggle against organised crime. They were grilled for representing a corrupt political class hostile to the change required to restore social peace -and they each struggled to absorb the punches. Whether anything comes from the meeting remains to be seen but Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the candidate for the coalition led by the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), has since expressed a willingness to sign up to a unity pact proposed by the MPJD.

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