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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2006 
Calderon Names Party-Switcher to Transition Team
 Associated Press
| | Jorge Alcocer Villanueva |
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, on Thursday named a former member of two rival parties to the post of legislative liaison for his transition team.
Jorge Alcocer served as deputy interior secretary for ex-President Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000), of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and also worked on behalf of PRI presidential candidate Francisco Labastida in 2000. President Vicente Fox defeated Labastida, becoming the first opposition candidate to end the PRI's 71-year hold on power.
Prior to his involvement with the PRI, Alcocer was a member of the Mexican Communist Party and its successor, the Mexican Unified Socialist Party, which later became part of the current leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
Calderon defeated Democratic Revolution's candidate, former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, by just 234,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point in the July 2 presidential election.
In Calderon's transition team, Alcocer will be in charge of dialogue between federal lawmakers and governmental representatives in Congress during negotiations over the president-elect's proposed legislative agenda.
With this designation, the President-elect ratifies his commitment to dialogue between the executive and legislative powers to find agreement on subjects of national interest, a news release from Calderon's office said.
Calderon and his transition team are working with Fox's administration to pave the way for a smooth transfer of power when the president-elect takes office on Dec. 1. |
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