Mexican elections coming up

[Rkmickey at aol.com]

Here is a short article from the Financial Times.  Are there any Mexicans on 
the list who might have ideas how such an alliance would work?  What do the 
PRD and the PAN have in common other than the desire to toss out the PRI?
K. Mickey

http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/newsemkts.htm
SUNDAY 2200 GMT
Next update MONDAY 0730 GMT

Mexican leftists strive to form broad coalition

The leftist party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) said it would pursue a 
broad coalition with right and centre parties in a bit to break the dominace 
of the world's longest ruling political party, the Institutional 
Revolutionary party (PRI) in the 2000 presidential elections. Recent polls 
suggested a left-right coalition could win 49 per cent of the votes, but 
political analysts are skeptical of an alliance between the two main 
opposition parties, the conservative National Action party (PAN) and the 
liberal PRD. However, PRD has warned PAN that it could be isolated by a broad 
left-centre alliance including a cluster of smaller parties.