The president's personal secretary César Nava is leaving Los Pinos, moving instead to the PAN headquarters to focus on strategy for the 2009 mid-term elections and to seek a post in the Chamber of Deputies. He will be replaced by Mexico's ambassador to the Vatican, Luis Felipe Bravo Mena.
It occurred to me as I glanced at the photos of the press conference with Nava and Germán Martínez that the calderonistas are kind of a nerdy-looking bunch, especially without the late Juan Camilo Mouriño. I still like that wing's eggheadedness much better than Fox's clownishness or the yunquistas' ultra-right positions, but that could matter from an electoral standpoint. Not to overdo the superficiality, but Calderón snuck to victory as a responsible technocrat largely because his opponents in 2006 were (fairly) characterized as a lying cheater and a populist firebrand, but in 2012, the faces of the PRD and PRI are likely to be appealing moderates who are married to/dating soap opera actresses.
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