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Snakes and Ladders
Salvador García Soto
El Universal Wednesday November 29, 2006
were imposed harsh
crisis that erupted yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies with the shameful spectacle of the violent takeover of the podium by the fractions of PAN and the PRD canceled any possibility of dialogue and understanding. The swearing in of Felipe Calderon is now in doubt and failed attempts to reach an agreement of civility. In short: the radical and the PRD PAN took control of their parties, imposed violence and defeated the moderates who sought a political settlement.
the losers in the PRD are the current leaders of the New Left, which were eventually overtaken by lopezobradoristas radical, eager to agree with the PAN to respect their protests on 1 December at the site, in exchange for not impeding the oath consitucional Calderon.
Chuchos, led by Jesus Ortega and Carlos Navarrete, lost not only the possibility to avoid excessive wear to the image of the PRD, but also failed in an attempt to replicate the López Obrador, and from these negotiations confirm their supremacy and begin the assault to control the national party leadership towards the political project that already have ready to make Jesus Ortega PRD presidential candidate in 2012.
the side of the PAN, the loss is shared by the team of Felipe Calderón and the coordinator of the senators, Santiago Creel, who had taken the promotion and negotiation of a political agreement with the PRD. Creel was the contact through which Carlos Abascal and Calderon's political operatives were made several offers to New Left leaders, among them promoting the absence of President Fox, in exchange for not preclude the making of protest or take the rostrum.
Today, judging by the picture that morning, the grounds of St. Lazarus, there is no room for negotiation. The hard line imposed and last night in the domes of the PRD deputies were ordered not to leave the stage until 2 December, while the PAN radicals also imposed the decision to stay there and not giving space to the PRD.
The question then is: what will happen to the ceremony on 1 December? And last night alternatives emerged. The PRI, the big winner of the irrational confrontation, proposes alternate site for protest and render Calderón asked not to attend President Fox
PRI
But the proposal seems incomplete. More than an alternative site would require a site distant from the City, because the December 1 Andrés Manuel López Obrador is calling for a march to his followers and, according to his calculations, plan to gather about 20,000 people in the Zocalo in order to mobilize any alternate site where we will try to take the oath to the President. There would be no fence police to resist the mobilization of this magnitude or time to prepare an operation to protect an alternate venue.
If one wants to avoid a bloody clash and ensure the constitutional ceremony, would have to move the act of swearing to a different city and far from the Federal District, where you see, is hostile territory for Calderon and any site that was improvised in the capital would face serious security risks.
For one thing, while making decisions that can be historical, it is clear that the PAN and the PRD's burst their radical wings. And in the midst of radicalization, while blue and yellow lose and make us lose all, are the PRI's political savvy, who sabotaged and torpedoed the approaches and dialogue between PAN and PRD, and are now trying to appear as the moderate center the country needs.
Felipe Calderón appointed yesterday, despite all the criticism and questioning, Francisco Ramirez Acuna as his interior secretary. The brand operator of the next government already has its first challenge: or show that his critics and detractors wrong, or the crisis will deepen the weakness of the new presidency.
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