Main Mexican Leftist Leader Cardenas Resigns Over Party Credibilty teleSUR
go to original November 26, 2014

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (center) with other PRD leaders as they protest energy reforms (Reuters)

Mexican politician, and leftist moral authority, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas has resigned from the party he founded, due to recent scandals involving some of it's members, the Ayotzinapa case, and major differences with the party president.

Cardenas resigned from his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) hours after a meeting with party leader Carlos Navarrete.

The well-respected politician’s public resignation letter said that for years there had been irreconcilable differences between him and the new leaders of the party, but that recently they had become too big to ignore.

"We maintain profound differences regarding our views on how to face the internal crisis affecting the party,” said Cardenas after meeting with Navarrete.

Cardenas called for Navarrete’s resignation Nov. 17, saying this was a necessary step in order to regain the party’s credibility.

The moral authority of the party, according to Cardenas, has been damaged partly due to the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, who went missing two months ago in Guerrero state, where PRD ran the local government.

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