Question about Mexico

[HEyHEY]

I do not know enough about the opposition there. If Fox looses the election, will the next group be as bad as past leaders? IN your opinion anyway.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Could very well be.

Mexico is still a very poor country. The PRI was corrupt. They were very much like the NEOCON cabal in our government today.Everything for the payoff. Unfortunately, when the PAN got cotrol first of the Baja peninsula the same behavior ensued. One was organized crime (PRI) while the PAN was disorganized crime. There is a newer left opposition party that I don't know as much about but the power plays have somehow corrupted even those that gave some hope.

Hell, when Salinas de Gotari got elected in the 80's, one of the forst tings he did was lock up the corrupt transportation minister. It looked like things would change then. They didn't. His government was as corrupt as the best of them.

[happyslug]

2. Fox can NOT run

Mexico since 1929 has had a constitutional provision limiting its President to one six year term (This has been proposed for the US President ever since the Adoption of the US Constitution and was adopted as part of the Constitution of the Confederacy in 1861. It was one of the few differences between the US and Confederate Constitution, so much for state rights causing the US Civil War).

For an English translation of the Mexican Constitution see:
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=93

Article 83 covers the Office of the President

[arcos]

3. A little info...

The PRI, who has been everywhere on the political spectrum (started as a revolutionary party, but during the decades it has been populist, liberal, conservative, socialdemocrat, etc), the PAN (conservative) and the PRD (socialdemocrat).

The PRD nearly won the presidential election in 1988, against the PRI. In fact, the PRD was ahead during most of election night, when a mysterious power outage happened. When the electricity came back, the PRI was narrowly ahead, and that's where Carlos Salinas de Gortari was elected.

In last Sunday's elections, the PRI came out slightly ahead of the PAN, although they BOTH lost seats. The PRD went up from 57 to 99 seats. I guess this is a very positive outcome.