Conservative PAN and Leftist PRD Call for ‘Broad Alliance’ Against Ruling PRI Jude Webber - FT.com
go to original May 22, 2017

PAN President Ricardo Anaya shakes hands with his PRD counterpart Alejandra Barrales (Twitter/@RicardoAnayaC)

Update: PRD Denies Alliance with PAN for 2018 (The News)

Mexico’s conservative opposition National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) have called for a “broad alliance” for the 2018 presidential elections in an attempt to oust the ruling PRI party and halt maverick leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The two parties — the first, the party of the business establishment and the second, a dwindling force that has lost a stream of members to Mr López Obrador’s Morena party — have very different ideologies, but say they want to install a coalition government in Latin America’s second-biggest economy for the first time.

An alliance between them worked well in local elections last year and will deliver again in upcoming state polls, Ricardo Anaya, PAN leader, told a news conference.

... The aim would be “to get rid of the PRI, for certain, and to give Mexico a coalition government, an honest government delivering results for the benefit of the people”, Mr Anaya said.

The man to beat: Mexican politics is in flux with the rise to prominence of populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Reuters)

Mr López Obrador, making his third bid for the presidency, is shaping up as the candidate to beat in 2018.

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Related: Mexico's PRD and PAN Mull Unorthodox Alliance for Next Election (teleSUR)

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