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Weekly Report - 3 March 2011 (WR-11-09)
MEXICO: López Obrador prepares 2012 campaign platform
Former Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) presidential
candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador his given another indication of his
intention to run in the upcoming 2012 presidential elections. On 28 February he
met 200 members of the private sector in Mexico City to present them with his
proposed plan of governance. López Obrador, who narrowly lost the 2006
presidential elections to current president Felipe Calderón from the right-wing
Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), argues that ahead of those elections some
prominent Mexican entrepreneurs demonised him as an extreme left-wing radical
and successfully managed to turn the private sector against him. As a result he
has decided to organise summits with members of the private sector in order to
shed that negative image.
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