PRD hopefuls nix Hidalgo alliance
Lunes, 25 de Enero de 2010
BY VERÓNICA ANGELES CILIA
PACHUCA. Hidalgo's five gubernatorial hopefuls from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) are urging party president Jesús Ortega to demand respect from other political parties, amid talks of alliances.
The five aspirants said in a press conference Saturday that they will deliver a resolution to Ortega asking him not to allow the National Action Party (PAN) to condition the formation of an oppository alliance with the PRD to sack the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from its lengthy governance in Hidalgo. Hopefuls were referring to PAN president César Nava's provision that the PAN would not ally with the PRD if the candidate is an Andrés Manuel López Obrador sympathizer.
Nava had also prematurely announced that a PAN-PRD alliance had been made and that Xochitl Gálvez would be the candidate, according to the "Perredistas."
PRD pre-candidates Sen. José Guadarrama Márquez; Indigenous and Campesino Force director Isidro Pedraza Chávez; former state PRD director Alfredo Olvera Reyes; and former deputies Francisco Patiño Cardona and Miguel Ángel Peña Sánchez said that they will not allow, nor accept, "that people who are involved in PRD matters, to try to anticipate scenarios," mainly when a PAN alliance has yet to be formalized.
They also called on national and state PAN leaders "not to muddle the political climate."
Before deciding on whether to align with its ideological opposite, the PRD must first decide whether it should partner with other leftist parties, namely Convergence and the Labor Party (PT), pre-candidates said.
"I trust in the PRD's internal workings and it will be a national council that has the last word," Patiño said. "We just want to stop a surprise attack, or anything like it."
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