Opposition Dispute Goes Public, Threatening Mexican Reform Agenda Dave Graham and Miguel Gutierrez - Reuters
go to original May 21, 2013

MEXICO CITY - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Short of a majority in Congress, Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is likely to need support from the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, to see through plans to overhaul state oil giant Pemex and broaden the tax base.

But the PAN has been mired in a power struggle since it lost the presidency last year, and tension has risen steadily over disagreements on how much the party should support the president's efforts to reform Latin America's No. 2 economy.

That friction boiled over this weekend when PAN Chairman Gustavo Madero said he would strip former Finance Minister Ernesto Cordero of his role as PAN Senate leader, leading to a tense exchange live on national television on Monday.

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