| | |  Editorials | April 2009 
Game On for PAN, PRI
 TheNews.com.mx
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| | (Alan Hughes) | |
The game of political pingpong between the PAN and the PRI continues to be quite entertaining.
Last week, the PRI roared back to life after PAN president Germán Martínez had come out serving aggressively. Initially, the PRI was caught off guard and netted a few returns, managed to sustain a few meek rallies and played tentative defense.
There was some murmuring in the PRI, confusion and disappointment that its team captains did not effectively demonstrate a vigorous service game to match Martínez.
PRI Sen. Manlio Fabio Beltrones rallied the troops during a physical and assertive exchange in the Senate. He talked some trash, calling Senate President Gustavo Madero - a PANista - a "liar" (although he later attempted to spin his comments and insisted he used the word "deceitful"). He then took aim at the man sitting above Martínez, declaring that Mexico "really misses having a genuine Head of State." The PRI was back in the game.
The PAN front man ceded the set over the weekend, but came back with a nasty, biting serve on Monday: "This was a very serious comment by Sen. Beltrones," Martínez said. "We'd simply ask that the senator to clarify the type of Head of State to which he referred: was it Zedillo, who persecuted him; was it Salinas, who embraced him; was it López Portillo, who devalued the peso; or was it Echeverría, the great repressor." Ouch!
Other PANistas piled on, criticizing Beltrones' demagoguery and calling him retrograde. And the official start to the election campaign is over two weeks away. Unfortunately for the PRD, pingpong is a game for two. |
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