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Mexico & Nafta - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Por México al Frente: Still a viable alliance?
Although the forging of broad electoral alliances in Mexico ahead of the 2018 general election is causing a lot of noise in the press and in market forecasts they are not new. In 1988, Mexican politics watched the formation of an inter-party alliance, with the Frente Democrático Nacional (FDN) launching the engineer Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano as its presidential candidate. Cárdenas came close but ultimately failed in his bid to become president, but it now seems likely that the newly created Por México al Frente coalition will fare much better.
