Noticias de Hoy

++ PAN national chairman César Nava said the agreement he reached with the PRI not to forge alliances with other parties in elections in the State of Mexico has no legal validity and he denied that that agreement also covered other states. He said that although it is still to soon to say whether the PAN will seek an alliance to compete in the 2011 elections in the State of Mexico, his party is free to do as it pleases since the agreement reached with the PRI was cancelled. ++ PRD national leader Jesús Ortega said that when the time comes his party will ponder on the wisdom of forging an alliance with the PAN for the governor’s race in the State of Mexico, next year. ++ Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont justified the signing of an agreement between PAN leader César Nava and PRI president Beatriz Paredes to avoid campaign alliances in the State of Mexico in exchange for approving the fiscal package… Gómez Mont said that these kinds of negotiations between political actors are part of democracy…Gómez Mont rejected criticism of his role in the negotiations, and said that President Felipe Calderón only was informed about the agreement in January. Gómez Mont once again insisted he would not resign from his position, since he said, part of his powers are to take part in these kinds of agreements. ++ During the 81st anniversary of the PRI, party leader Beatriz Paredes lashed out against the alliances signed by the PRD and the PAN saying that those alliances undermine the party system. ++ President Felipe Calderón said that organized crime is the greatest threat in Mexico to human rights and exercising freedom of expression. ++ The Interior Secretariat rejected media reports on an “imminent earthquake” off the coasts of Guerrero. ++ Public Security secretary in Nuevo León, Carlos Jáuregui, was dismissed from his position… Luis CarlosTreviño Berchelmann was appointed to replace him… The Nuevo León government is seeking to recover citizens’ confidence in state police corps.

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