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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Mexico PRI Decides How Far Left
 Prensa Latina
| | Jorge Hank Rhon, right, abandoned his position as mayor of Tijuana and will seek to run for governor of the Mexican state of Baja California for the PRI political party. (AP/David Maung) |
The fear of seeming too leftist is keeping Mexico s PRI (Institutional Revolutionary) party on tenterhooks, following this major Mexican political party s extraordinary assembly this week.
Reluctant to accept they are a progressive organization, several delegates decided on Thursday to remain "ideologically undefined," rather than including that concept in their declaration of principles.
Social democracy, revolutionary nationalism, social justice, and republican democracy were some of the suggestions in the debate, which confronted followers and detractors of the ideological turn proposed by Beatriz Paredes, who was elected PRI president.
Paredes told local press she supported the leftist proposal, which she considers a step forward beyond the initial central left formulation.
The Mexican political system has changed and become multiparty with competitive conditions, and it is necessary to act according to our principles, whether in power or not, she warned..
Paredes considered it very important that the governors participate with their own dynamics and personality, but insisted that she will accept neither apathy, nor self-satisfaction. |
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