Germán Martínez is calling on voters to use the July elections to punish the PRI. Embracing the punishment vote would seem an odd tactic for a party that has held Los Pinos for almost a decade, but Martínez wants the PRI punished for past its corruption, of which the de la Madrid-Salinas set-to has provided a compelling example. It's not throw bums out of office, but rather, keep the bums out of office, with a reminder that the old bums have not changed their bummy stripes.
A commentator wrote several months ago that the PRI was doing well not because of its own merits but rather because of its competitors' self-immolation. I think there was a lot of truth to that. Even though these are two retired officials trading barbs this week, the inevitable strains upon the unity of a party with so many rivalries and different power bases could now be surfacing.
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