Leaders from Mexico's National Action Party (PAN) and the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) recently announced their intention to run on a joint ticket in the 2011 race for the governorship of the state of Guerrero, and have begun talks to collaborate in an additional four state races.
The announcement follows July's defeat of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at the hands of the PAN-PRD alliance in gubernatorial races held in three PRI strongholds -- Oaxaca, Puebla and Sinaloa -- and signals the increasing collaboration between
Mexico's main center-right (PAN) and center-left (PRD) parties as the 2012 presidential contest nears. ...