Factions

Jorge Fernández Menéndez wrote on Friday that the elections of the respective parties' leaders in the Chamber of Deputies has shown them to be factions more than coherent parties. I'd say that the analysis applies much more so the PAN and the PRD, as it did during the election, than to the PRI. The fight for the PRI leadership post (between the victor Francisco Rojas and César Augosto Santiago) was extremely muted, and wouldn't have occurred at all had Beatriz Paredes not withdrawn her name (according to Fernández, because it was decided that she couldn't simultaneously serve as PRI president and leader of the deputies, and that preferred the former post). It's only a matter of time before PRI disputes open up a bit more, but its factions are still getting along much better than those of the PAN and the PRD.