With 98.83% of the ballot boxes counted, Mexico’s centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the allied Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) had won all 25 districts in Aug. 5 legislative elections in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Alliance That Builds [Alianza Que Construye], the PRI-PVEM coalition, got 412,798 votes to 238,292 for the center-left For the Good of All coalition [Por el Bien de Todos], which is made up of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Workers Party (PT) and the Convergence party. The center-right National Action Party (PAN) of Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa came in third with 113,646 votes. Just 36.42% of the state’s 2.4 million voters turned out for the election.
The results were a big victory for PRI governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, who was the target of militant demonstrations and occupations that paralyzed the state for seven months in 2006. The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), which led the protests in 2006, had called for a “punishment vote” against the PRI and the PAN, while the PRD had hoped to capitalize on dissatisfaction with Ruiz. Once the results were final on Aug. 6, the APPO and the PRD immediately blamed each other for the PRI sweep. A PRD official, Edgar Pereira, complained that the PRI had campaigned to associate his party with the APPO to “give [the PRD] a violent image.” According to Castulo Lopez Pacheco, an APPO spokesperson, the problem was that “there’s little credibility in the opposition parties.”
The PAN continued to dominate the northwestern state of Baja California Norte in gubernatorial, legislative and municipal elections on Aug. 5. The PAN’s Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan won the governorship with 50% of the vote; outgoing Tijuana mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, son of the legendary PRI boss Carlos Hank Gonzalez, followed with 43%; the PRD, which has no base in the state, came in a distant third with 2%. The PAN took back Tijuana and will hold a strong majority in the legislature. (LJ, Aug. 7)
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, Aug. 12
See our last posts on Mexico and Oaxaca, and Baja California.
Why is this Green Eco Party
Why is this Green Eco Party allied with the PRI and Ruiz?
What’s so green about Ruiz?
and why are you asking readers annoying math questions???
To ask such questions is to answer them
Because they are bogus opportunists, of course.
We are asking annoying math questions as a counter-spam measure.
To Give Snide Replies is to Negate Discussion…
Seems to me like my question offered a perfect opportunity to enlighten readers less fortunate to be as informed as you, Bill, as to the nature of Green Parties in Oaxaca and Mexico and their relationship to power there.
Obviously I sussed that this Eco Party is led by opportunists, but still I found that intriguing. Does the PRD have any green alliances?
Do this Eco Party have any real base?
There’s a lot one can say here by way of explication if you would deign to enlighten us….
Didn’t mean to be snide
The PVEM started out fairly legitimate (tho with little real base) some 15 years ago, but have since been increasingly co-opted as a “satellite party” of the PRI.
The PRD has a base among the legtimate “peasant ecologists” of Oaxaca and southern Mexico, who are defending their lands from logging companies and the like. Although this base is also often somewhat skeptical of the PRD, and wary that it will get co-opted as well…
WHEN….?????
WHEN DOES THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE ‘WAKE-UP”????
CHANGE CAN ONLY TAKE PLACE WHEN U.S. INTERVENTION IS OUT OF MEXICO…”BETTER TO DIE ON YOU FEET THAN BE A SLAVE ON YOUR KNEES—“E.Z.
EXPEL ALL U.S. COMPANIES -THEIR ULTIMATE END IS THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE MEXICAN PEOPLE !THE MEXICAN POLITICIANS
THAT ARE IN OFFICE ARE “COPYING” THE SAME TAX AND CONTROL
PROGRAMS THAT EXIST IN THE U.S.-I.R.S.-SOC.-SEC.-F.C.C.
F.D.A. AND COUNTLESS OTHERS FOR “EXTREME-CONTROL”
THE SOLUTION IS TO “CUT-THE-HEADS-OFF OF MEDUSA”
THIS IS OBAMA-BIDEN -CLINTON-POLOSSI-REID —SEND THE TEAM NOW THIS WILL ALLOW MEXICO TO BE TRUELY -“MEXICO”
VOTE THEM OUT___>>>>>>
EVIL DEMOCRAT PLAN
It is good that people are starting to see through the long term enslavement plan of social security …
oh, excuse me …
IT IS GOOD THE PEOPLE ARE SEEING THREW THE DEMOCRAT PLOT SOC SEC! POLOSSI IS A PAWN OF THE FCC!!!!! RISE UP AGAINST THE NEW WORLD ODOR ORGANIZE AND CAPITALIZ