Insight into the Changes

Jorge Fernández Meléndez makes sense of the musical chairs in the federal government, saying the entrance of Francisco Gómez Mont as the secretary of the interior and Luis Felipe Bravo Mena as the president's personal secretary shows two things: first, the tight-knit group of panistas that Calderón brought with him to Los Pinos no longer exists, especially following the death of Juan Camilo Mouriño; second, he's replacing that group with heavyweights (like Mont and Bravo Mena) who dominated the party during the 1990s (a very successful decade for the PAN) but were later sidelined by the (less successful) foxista wing of the party.