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I was checking out the Wiki entry on the Mexican election and I noticed something: beyond the PAN and PRD, which received about 35% of the votes, there was the PRI (Mexico's version of the Union Nationale), the Social Democrats, and the PNA - Partido Nueva Alianza. In other words, the New Alliance Party.

Would you get a load of their logo?



Is that not a spitting image of the CA?



Their party principles are pretty interesting, too. I'm trying to decide where they fall in the political spectrum. Consider (I'm translating here):

New Alliance asserts that the Market Economy is the most efficient means of organizing economic relations. We recognize the existence of imperfections in the practice of this mode of exchange, even if they must be corrected by action from the State, which is in charge of guaranteeing social development with equal opportunities, full employment, the battle against poverty and marginalization, with the end of securing access to education, health and life for Mexicans.

Then they talk about lots of equalization - equalizing the benefits of development across all regions of the country and so-forth. Their big thing in social policy is the use of education to diversity and equalize opportunities, not surprising given that the party was formed in part by a teachers' union.

I'm trying to figure out whether or not they're classical liberal, Gladstone Liberal, conservative, fascist or what.

Interesting.

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Read about the write-in candidate (the paragraph below the main table), Victor Gonzales Torres. I'm not sure what's funnier - the fact that spoiled ballots beat him out three times over or the fact that he succeeded in getting almost 300,000 people to write him in as comic relief.

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DAY-AFTER UPDATE: Others have noticed, too.

UPDATE 2: Bienvenue aux lecteurs de Polyscopique!