El Peje Fires a Warning Shot

Andrés Manuel López Obrador warns of national mobilizations if an energy reform allowing the participation of private business is passed. The basis for his position is the consultation Sunday, in which 870,000 capital city residents (out of a Mexico City metro total of some 25 million) charted the nation's future, or AMLO would have us believe. Never mind the number of polls that show a slight majority favoring the specifics of the Calderón reform. 

It'll be interesting to see what happens if PRD legislators take over congress again should the PRI and PAN pass a reform they view unfavorably. The voices calling for their forcible removal will surely be louder this time.