Selection of PRI and PAN Candidates Is Not Mere Politicking But an Anti-AMLO Ploy Ricardo Castillo - The News
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Whether gossip or not, the selection by PRI and PAN of these two candidates is not mere politicking but a way to sway the State of Mexico vote against López Obrador (Morena)

The political talk of the day in Mexico is about an alleged meeting that took place on Friday night January 20 at the presidential residence of Los Pinos.

The objective of the gathering, according to El Universal daily columnist Salvador García Soto, was to make an alliance between President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and his not so mysterious visitor Ricardo Anaya, president of the National Action Party (PAN), to impede populist left wing party National Regeneration Movement (Morena) led by virtual presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) from winning the upcoming election in the State of Mexico.

PAN has denied that its president Ricardo Anaya ever visited Los Pinos Friday night, but journalist García Soto claims he got the news scoop from “governors” that attended the gathering to beat AMLO and Morena at all costs.

Another one who fully agrees that the midnight affair existed is AMLO himself, who on Monday made the presentation of his third book about the Mexican electoral system, in which he reasserts that corrupt alliances between PRI and PAN to oust him from politics altogether have always existed from a single party he calls “PRIAN.”

According to García Soto, Peña Nieto wanted to negotiate with Anaya the candidacy for governor and to back former presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota to be the PAN candidate, while for Peña Nieto’s PRI will run his blood cousin Alfredo del Mazo Maza.

“I’d be happy if either one wins,” Peña Nieto is quoted as saying, but not the Morena candidate.

Whether gossip or not, the selection by PRI and PAN of these two candidates is not mere politicking but a way to sway the State of Mexico vote against López Obrador as it is the objective of both parties to contain the candidacy of AMLO as much as possible for next year’s 2018 presidential election in which AMLO is currently the unquestioned front-runner.

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