Mexico's Parties Announce Anti-Corruption Pact: "As state and local election races heat up in Mexico, candidates across the country are seeking to cast themselves as cleaner than their rivals, and free of links to organized crime. The party with the most at stake may be the center-left PRD.
Elections in the state of Michoacan, scheduled for November, are particularly important for Mexico's three main political parties, and may serve as a bellweather for the presidential elections in 2012. Traditionally a stronghold of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolucion Democratica - PRD), the state has been rocked by a series of high-profile corruption cases in recent years.
Concern about the infiltration of organized crime in politics has risen so high that the non-partisan Michoacan Development Foundation called on the country’s three biggest parties to come together and field a joint candidate for governor of the state. ...
Despite the lack of consensus on a candidate in the Michoacan race, the parties did make a pact to each take measures to "guard" their candidates against the influence· of organized crime. According to
El Milenio, the party leaders announced in separate press conferences after the meeting that they had agreed to intensify scrutiny of the campaign process, and especially of funding. "We all have a common concern over the need to shield campaigns against the penetration of dirty money from drug trafficking," "
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