The “don't get mixed up” of Peña Nieto

No doubt Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto left a very clear message to all senators and deputies of the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) about supporting presidential candidate José Antonio Meade . We're told that in the recent meetings the Head of State has had with legislators, the message was direct and clear: with Pepe Meade until we win. Thus, our sources say, when it was asked in Los Pinos about the alleged pressure some key businessmen could be exerting on Mr. Pepe Toño to transfer his votes to Ricardo Anaya , the reply of the President was eloquent and direct: it's more feasible that Anaya transfers his votes than Meade. This is Peña Nieto's way of saying “don't get mixed up”. To the message of the President we can also add the arrival of René Juárez Cisneros to the national leadership of the PRI, a man close to Meade and who will also be making sure that all PRI members know whom they have to support.

The Greenies drift away from the PRI

The national leadership of the center-right Green Party (PVEM) is throwing quite a fit over local and federal deputy candidacies across the entire country, or so our sources say. In reality, according to some members of the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Greenies have begun to drift away from the ruling party just like they did in 2006. Otherwise, our sources say, no one would be able to explain why they are wrecking the coalition with their historical allies in Chiapas, Oaxaca, Mexico City and, according to the current state of affairs, in the State of Mexico, it seems. The PRI thinks the Greenies are trying to take advantage of the rotation within the PRI's national leadership to see if they manage to keep the places that could allow them to keep their registration in several states, or else they will make the necessary arrangements to ensure it. The question is whether this will affect their presidential candidate José Antonio Meade . Because if it does, then the tantrum of the PVEM comes at the worst time possible.

AMLO in Chapultepec

We're told that in the upcoming days, Andrés Manuel López Obrador will visit the Chapultepec Castle to attend an event with entrepreneurs of the tourism industry. We're told that Mr. Andrés is the guest at a national tourism forum and that the presidential candidate will be able to take a look at the extension of the official residence of Los Pinos – which he has pledged he will not inhabit should he win the election, transforming it into a public area instead.

Anaya wants former goalie Rios out of the game

The representatives of the left National Regeneration Party (MORENA), the far-left Labor Party (PT), and the conservative Social Encounter Party (PES) have readied a complaint against an operation orchestrated by presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya to leave out of the contest for the Mayor's Office in the state of Querétaro the former goalkeeper of Mexico's National Football Team Adolfo Ríos . We're told that the coaltion led by López Obrador is claiming that Mr. Ricardo used his influence to eject Mr. Adolfo over an alleged non-ccompliance with the residence requirement. According to MORENA members, Anaya is in cahoots with collaborators of the Garrido Patrón administration, as well as the president of the Electoral Institute of Querétaro, Gerardo Romero , and the head of the Electoral Court of Querétaro, Martín Silva – both public servants who used to be school buddies of Anaya. Will Rios get the red card?

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