Fernando Gómez Mont has admitted that the reason for the renunciation of his PAN membership was a pact with the PRI to shoot down electoral alliances between his party and the PRD in Oaxaca, in exchange for PRI support over the budget bills late last year. (It's not clear to me if his said of the bargain was to avoid any PAN-PRD alliance, or just make sure that Gabino Cué wasn't the alliance's candidate. In any event, Cué is the candidate, and Gómez Mont felt obligated by the pact to resign.) The Interior Secretary didn't go into a lot of details, but he says that he made the promise to the PRI on behalf of the federal government without Calderón's knowledge. Gómez Mont also says that Calderón wasn't aware of the pact being hammered out between his party and the PRD.
I imagine that most people will assume this is a fib aimed at cementing the image of Calderón as above the political fray. I have no idea if it's true or not, but if it's a lie, it's certainly not a lie that makes Calderón look very good.
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