Early campaigning — for the NEXT election
We’re in the “days of reflection” — the three day blackout on political propaganda and polling (ain’t it wonderful!!), but there’s no let-up in discussion of the 2012 election:
Ganchoblog on Calderón’s surprise announcement that he plans to phase out the federal tenencia (the valuation tax on automobiles, also assessed in some states), which was:
… reportedly sparked by a similar plan in the works in the State of Mexico. Not to be out-shined weeks before an election day by his likely successor, Calderón’s cabinet raced to preempt Peña Nieto’s announcement with own of their own. This may not be entirely true, but if it is and you have a presidency making such a decision based entirely on a governor’s possible course of action, you have to wonder about the quality of his advisors.
Given that Gov. Peña Nieto is still the presumed PRI candidate for Prez. in 2012, it just sounds like standard “middle-class tax break” kind of campaign promise — one of the candidates for Governor here is also promising to end the tenencia… but we don’t talk about the 2010 election today … and looks like one to Jornada cartoonist Helguera:
mexfiles.net 