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Decoding Encryptions
 The News
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July 29, 2009
Encrypted messaging may be new to some gizmo addicts in the e-age, but for Mexican politicians, it has always been there.
And these are particularly eclectic times, especially after the July 5 midterm elections in which voters decided to bring back the once hated and discredited Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to rule the Chamber of Deputies. And it will be even more so after the PRI takes command of Congress after Sept. 1.
For President Felipe Calderón, the month of August is indeed the lull before the storm. But as of now, encrypted messaging is coming his way.
On Monday, PRI leader Beatriz Paredes said that her party in Congress will be aiming to have a "semi-presidential regime" (The News, July 28), mostly because the current relation between the legislative and excutive is "dysfunctional."
A semi-presidential regime! What's that?
Most likely, and in trying to decode this encrypted political message, she is warning the President that very soon his highly questioned appointments to the cabinet will have to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies first, and by the President later.
This remains to be seen because constitutionally this is not feasible even if the deputies can query cabinet members.
Yet such a move could undermine Calderón's power to the point in which he may be sidelined.
This was not a tirade from Ms. Paredes and it must be interpreted as a salvo, warning Calderón, so he knows the shape of things to come. |
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