Mexico’s Madrazo Wins Court Battle Against Party Foe Gordillo
Mexican presidential hopeful Roberto Madrazo won a legal battle against a party foe as the nation’s electoral court confirmed one of his allies as president of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico’s biggest.
The electoral court yesterday dismissed a motion by Elba Esther Gordillo, the party’s executive secretary, to oust Madrazo’s ally from the party’s presidency, according to a statement on the court’s Web site. The decision is final.
Gordillo had argued before the court that by party statutes she should be made party president, succeeding Madrazo after he stepped down to seek his presidential candidacy for the July 2006 election. Madrazo and his allies called an extraordinary party meeting Aug. 31 to name Mariano Palacios president, a move Gordillo described then as a “trick'’ to block her from becoming party leader. The party’s president sets the rules for the primary election for a presidential candidate.
Gordillo heads Mexico’s teachers union, Latin America’s largest organized labor group. By withdrawing her support for Madrazo, Gordillo may take away a traditional base of support for the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The party held Mexico’s presidency for 71 years before the victory of President Vicente Fox’s National Action Party in 2000.
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Mexico's Roberto Madrazo Wins PRI Presidential Primary Election
Mexico's Roberto Madrazo, the former governor of the state of Tabasco, won the primary election for the presidential nomination of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party.
Madrazo had 91 percent of the votes with the ballots from 74 percent of polling stations counted, according to the party's Web site. Everardo Moreno, Madrazo's only rival after former state of Mexico Governor Arturo Montiel dropped out of the contest, had 9 percent of the vote.
Mariano Palacios, president of the party, declared Madrazo the winner as of 11:30 p.m. New York time
Madrazo-style democracy threatens Mexico
The Cold War within Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has heated up.
The hairline crack in party unity that developed last year is now a gaping chasm.
At the center of the brouhaha is Roberto Madrazo, a man who talks about party unity but makes it clear that “unity†means doing things his way.
Last week “his way†meant defying a ruling by the independent Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and barring secretary general Elba Esther Gordillo from replacing him as party president when he entered the race to become the PRI’s presidential candidate.
Days earlier the IFE ruled that
Mexico's former ruling party stumbles in struggle to find new leader
Mexico's largest party struggled on Wednesday to find a compromise choice for its top leadership post following a bitter falling-out between the two highest-ranking officials of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
The confusion reflected internal disputes within the once-monolithic party, in which current party president Roberto Madrazo appears poised to roll over the competition for the 2006 presidential nomination.
As nearly 1,000 delegates chanted "Unity! Unity!" at the PRI's cavernous Mexico City headquarters, Madrazo clasped hands with Arturo Montiel, the only other major contender for the 2006 nomination, and
Mexico’s PRI faces a bitter battle over leadership
A bitter battle for succession is threatening to split Mexico's former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) as its governing council meets on Wednesday to vote on a new leader.
The party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years before the victory of Vicente Fox, the president, in 2000, still has more members of Congress and more state governors than any other, and the rupture could possibly affect its chances of regaining the presidency next year.
The next party president will have the power to set the rules for the PRI primary, which could affect Roberto
Mexico's PRI set to give Madrazo presidential nod
Roberto Madrazo, the leading figure in Mexico's main opposition party, was set to become its presidential candidate on Thursday as his main rival stepped down after a financial scandal.
A party source said Arturo Montiel, a former state governor, was dropping his bid to become the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years before it was ousted in 2000 elections.
The source, a key member of Montiel's campaign team, said he was withdrawing to preserve party unity after a bruising fight with Madrazo and recent corruption allegations
Leaders of Mexico's PRI feud as presidential election season nears
A year before the presidential election, this nation's oldest, most powerful party headed toward a destructive split, resulting from the bitter enmity between its top leaders -- probable presidential nominee Roberto Madrazo and teachers union leader Elba Esther Gordillo.
Madrazo was to have resigned Tuesday as the Institutional Revolutionary Party's chief to campaign full time in next year's Mexican presidential election, but he delayed his move after the party's leadership council voted unanimously Tuesday to ask him to stay on until early August.
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The ever-changing face of campaign politics in Mexico
Once more the unimaginable seems unavoidable in Mexican politics.
Barely two weeks following the start of what looked to be a ho-hum event, Mexican presidential campaigning took another turn in which the 2006 election outcome may again become unpredictable.
The split in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ranks has turned into a mutiny that not only threatens party unity and its 2006 election results, but eventually the party itself. Earlier Roberto Madrazo, the PRI boss and leading presidential hopeful, had fought back a showdown with a group of PRI governors, and he
Fox Separated Mexico from World, Says Madrazo
PRI presidential candidate (Institutional Revolutionary Party) Roberto Madrazo told foreign correspondents Tuesday that Vicente Fox´ arrival in office separated Mexico from the rest of the competitive world.
Madrazo pointed out that Mexico is 56th in a list of 60 countries in competitiveness, and its economy is stuck and oil dependent.
He condemned the absence of a national plan, an adequate migration policy, or an effective way to fight poverty, a scourge currently affecting 60 percent of the population.
When questioned about the Mexico-Venezuela dispute, the tri-color party candidate declared that the country had "lost its way" regarding
Mexico's PRI Whips Up Passions for Victory, Whoever the Candidate
Micaela Padilla was shouting to be heard over the mariachi singer during a boisterous campaign rally Thursday night for Roberto Madrazo, presidential candidate of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party.
"I support Madrazo first because it's my party," she said, "and second because he's a sincere man, a man of his word."
The 49-year-old housekeeper neatly captured Madrazo's problem: His party is more popular than he is.
Organizers made sure they filled all 2,000 folding chairs in Salon Mezzanine, one of the city's biggest banquet halls. Dozens of buses ferried local supporters and party stalwarts from
Disputes threaten to tear apart Mexico's PRI
As Mexico's former ruling party sets its sights on regaining power next year, it has found itself plagued by internal struggles that include angry protests by one group that used to give it reliable support.
The nation's teachers have been throwing eggs and yelling "Liar!" at the party's top presidential candidate, Roberto Madrazo.
The teachers' union, Mexico's largest with more than 1.2 million members, was until recently a pillar of Madrazo's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. For decades, it was among several unions delivering sure votes to keep the party in power, often in exchange
