Looking the Part

One two different occasions in the past week, Marcelo Ebrard has made a conspicuously presidential-ish pronouncement. On Tuesday, he called on Calderón to implement a tri-partisan Council of Economic Reactivation. And today, he proposed a National Emergency Program that would support the 60 million Mexicans most affected by the crisis. His barriers to the presidency don't have a lot to do with people being unable to picture him in the role, but the statements struck me as noteworthy nonetheless. It'll be interesting to see if this, as well as the chatter about him standing up to AMLO on the Juanito/Brugada issue and the laudable example of accountability that we mentioned earlier today, will be part of him rolling out a candidacy as the responsible leftist option.