The PAN's Future

Carlos Loret de Mola reports that ambitious panistas are itching to get their presidential campaigns cranking, and they are awaiting Calderón's decision to embrace one candidate or remain above the fray. It would be the height of irony if Calderón were to opt for the former approach, given his tortured arrival to the PAN nomination. Loret also speculates that given the increasingly diminished profile of security issues in the Calderón administration, the door could be wide open for someone surprising like Secretary of Social Development Ernesto Cordero.