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Calderón's Grip on PAN
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August 10, 2009
A new era starts for the National Action Party (PAN) as Cesar Nava on Saturday was elected president. Nava is young and ambitious and at least promised he would turn the party around and ready it for the 2010 elections.
Let's recap on how Nava gets to be president.
The July 5 elections brought upon the party ominous defeats on all fronts. And from nearly controlling the Chamber of Deputies, voters decided to give that control back to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), at lest for the next three years.
Nava's predecessor, Germán Martínez, ran an outright scurrilous campaign on behalf of the party and in his arrogance, did not notice that voters prefer the more humble kind of leader.
It was clear that the party's natural leader, President Felipe Calderón, imposed Martínez, and called for him to turn in his resignation. Then, Calderón appointed Nava to lead the party, much to the chagrin of party loyalists who did not even register a candidate, as they knew that Calderón's majority would rule.
Once again Calderón got his way even in the face of defeat, as what Martínez wrought upon him was the total loss of control in Congress.
For the PAN to compete in the next elections is going to be a nasty deal.
Like Martínez, Nava is one of Calderóns cubs, and perpaps the problem at the PAN is not the presidents, but the grip of an almighty President who just won't let the PAN go down the democratic path. |
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