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Weekly Report - 30 May 2013 (WR-13-21)
MEXICO: Pentecostal sacrifice highlights Pact tensions
Serious internal ructions within the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) over the party’s role in opposition could cause a schism as well as imperilling, once again, the Pacto por México cross-party accord on wide-ranging reforms. The president of the PAN, Gustavo Madero, is committed to the PAN’s presence in the Pact but a strong senate bloc is accusing him of turning the party into a satellite of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Madero’s dismissal of the head of the party’s senate bloc, Ernesto Cordero, on 19 May (Pentecost) only exacerbated the tension, and PAN senators stole the thunder of Pact representatives on 27 May by presenting a political reform bill just before the latter presented its own.
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