AMLO wants Mancera and Napito off the plane!
With concern, the Electoral Court of the Judicial Branch of the Federation received a few days ago a messenger from Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) . We're told this emissary met with Chief Magistrate, Janine Madeline Otálora and made her a proposal: to resolve the claim filed by the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) against Miguel Ángel Mancera and Napoleón Gómez Urrutia , preventing them both from running to the Senate. That is, they want to get rid of the former Mayor of Mexico City, who is being supported by the PAN-PRD-MC coalition, and of Gómez Urrutia, a candidate of the left National Regeneration Party (MORENA). On the one hand, they will prevent Mancera from reaching the Senate and consolidating himself as an opposing force; on the other, they break all ties with the controversial union leader without breaking going back on the word of MORENA, of proposing Urrutia as a candidate to the Senate. That's how you kill two birds with one stone. Or at least you try to, because we have to remember it was Otálora herself who took a firm stand against the independent candidacy of El Bronco. Now we'll have to see if law prevails at the Electoral Court or if they yield before the will of the frontrunner.
Meade, the last try
In what many see as the last-ditch effort to invigorate the presidential campaign, the new national leader of the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), René Juárez Cisneros , has convinced the PRI base – governors, organizations, groups, political advisers, et al – to support José Antonio Meade . Thus, yesterday we had the return of the party logos and the red garments they kept in their closets. The idea is to make a 180-degree change in the campaign, this time under the guidance of the party, to make a full comeback because if they don't get back on track...then there's nothing left to do.
Barrales, an identity crisis?
Who seems to have a case of identity crisis is the candidate of the PAN-PRD-MC coalition Alejandra Barrales , running for Mayor of Mexico City. We're told that despite Ms. Alejandra was the national leader of the left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) she doesn't feel at ease with the managers of that party and has virtually left in charge of her candidacy her new and better allies, the members of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) . The thing is that between left and right, and yellow and blue, Barrales has had to change some of her ideologies: last week, she personally said she wasn't in favor of abortion. It's worth mentioning the PRD was the party who proposed and approved abortion in Mexico City, and even though she claims she will not backtrack this legislation, she has also winked at her fellow conservative comrades.
Zavala and the economy class
Guadalupe Ostos
is a woman who went to a breakfast offered by Margarita Zavala in Tampico, Tamaulipas , as part of her campaign. During this get-together, Lupita praised the one she called her “Maguis” because a while ago she met her in a flight from Mexico City to the Huasteca region and she didn't do the same her former teacher, Josefina Vázquez Mota, did: sit in first class. Ms. Guadalupe recounted how she was surprised to see Margarita Zavala sit behind her in economy class, in that flight which departed at 6:00. “Margarita, thank you for traveling in economy because this has shown me you're an ordinary person, like me. You didn't chose first class,” said Ostos in public. Most certainly, Ms. Guadalupe ignores Zavala charted a private plane for her tour across Matamoros this Sunday, which cost her MXN$ 241,000.
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