Here Mexico
By Humberto Carrillo y Colon
And the “dirty pig” keeps going. Lets straighten out a little bit what even those in the PRD don’t understand.
In the municipal district of Iztapalapa in Mexico City, which the PRD has governed for the past nine years, they have offered two candidates to be registered with the Federal Electoral Institute for the July 5 elections: Clara Brugada, supported by López Obrador, and Silvia Oliva, protégée of the national PRD presided by Jesús Ortega.
By trickery, Clara won the internal vote. Silvia protested and went to the Electoral Tribune of the Judicial Power of the Federation, which, once it reviewed the case, ordered the PRD to register Silvia as the candidate for Iztapalapa because there were irregularities; they refused to recognize Clara Brugada.
To impose Clara, “Peje” López Obrador “found” a solution: call the people of Iztapalapa to vote July 5 for Rafael Acosta, who is the candidate of the Working Party (PT). Then, once Acosta wins the election, he takes his oath before the Legislative Assembly as a representative, resigns his position, and requests Marcelo Ebrard, head of the DF government to propose Clara Brugada to head the delegation in this locale so that in the end, the local representatives will approve her appointment. Quite a solution.
López Obrador affirms that he will not quit being a member of the PRD, but that he supports PT candidates and those of the Convergence Party. If that is politics, citizens do not like it. And now there will be those who ask, “why won’t people get out to vote, or will vote an empty ballot, or will void, in protest, their voter’s ballot?”
The head of the government of the Federal District, Marcelo Ebrard, is taking sides and saying López Obrador did not consult him about this solution. They may kick Peje out of the PRD after the elections for being a traitor to his party. Even Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas reprimanded him. Some say Peje is preparing his graceful exit and is looking for the cameras, like in 2006 when he wanted them to put him in jail and make him into a Nelson Mandela or Gandhi.
In Tlaxcala, TEPJF revoked the PRD’s Pedro Arturo López Obrador, Peje’s brother, and ordered that Eloy Sánchez Arellano be re-established as the nominee because the PRD cheated. Armando Quintero, who is the Secretary of Transportation of the Federal District, threatened the PRD with leaving them if the national leadership of that party decided to expel López Obrador, and he assured them that “all of us are leaving.”
All? That is, PRD would disappear? Great, another one with crazy dreams.
