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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 26 June 2017

Mexico’s PRD backs coalition for presidential elections

Development: On 25 June, the national leadership committee (CEN) of Mexico’s left-wing opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) party agreed to forge a broad-based coalition, Frente Amplio Democrático (FAD), to contest the 2018 presidential election.

Significance: The PRD might not be as powerful as it was before the departure of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to form his own party in 2012 but it is still a force to be reckoned with. The PRD’s eleventh-hour choice of gubernatorial candidate in the Estado de México (Edomex) state elections on 4 June, Juan Zepeda, finished a creditable third, comfortably outperforming Josefina Vázquez Mota, the big-hitter selected by the right-wing opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) party to try and end the hegemony of the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party in Edomex. But the PRD has been torn between those factions who favour an alliance with the PAN (as outlined by the PRD party president Alejandra Barrales with her PAN peer Ricardo Anaya last month) and those who want a left-wing coalition with López Obrador’s Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party. Barrales said that the Edomex elections confirmed to the PRD that no single party could defeat the PRI in a presidential election and that an opposition coalition was essential.

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