Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been criticized for campaigning for his National Action Party’s (PAN) candidate to be his successor, which is forbidden prior to March 30 of this year under Mexican law. Calderon is also being criticized for his pursuit of three Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) governors for corruption charges. Calderon is viewed as being uneven handed in his pursuit of corruption, targeting PRI officials far more often than members of his own party. Some speculate that the targeting of the PRI officials at this time on charges of accepting bribes from drug lords is to try to paint the PRI as being inseparable from the drug cartels. People fear that election watchdog agencies within the government are being compromised as well. An official who refused to overturn the results of an election narrowly lost by President Calderon’s sister was recently removed from his position in one such agency.
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