Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:11:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Edgar Abarca Rojano <sestrada-AT-fiscom.fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-NEWS: E;Reuter,Zedillo grants leftist foe wider power in capital, Jul 15 (fwd)






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Subject: E;Reuter,Zedillo grants leftist foe wider power in capital, Jul 15

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:50:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Victor O. Story" <story-AT-kutztown.edu>
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Subject: Zedillo grants leftist foe wider power in capital (fwd)

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 
	 MEXICO CITY (Reuter) - Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo  
granted wider powers Monday to leftist Mexico City mayor-elect 
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, giving the opposition leader more latitude 
to govern the largest city in the Americas. 
	 Breaking Mexico's written and unwritten political rules,  
Zedillo told Cardenas during their first face-to-face meeting he 
would be allowed to pick his own city police chief and attorney 
general -- powers still under presidential authority. 
	 ``The president told the mayor-elect he would approve  
whomever the mayor decided to chose as city attorney general,'' 
Carlos Almada, presidential spokesman, told a news conference. 
	 ``With regard to the head of public security in the city,  
the president also agreed to appoint the mayor's candidate ... 
and make the person report directly to the mayor, delegating to 
the mayor that presidential responsibility,'' Almada said after 
the hour-long meeting. 
	 Cardenas still faces an uphill battle solving problems of  
soaring crime, suffocating pollution and rampant poverty in a 
city anchoring a metropolitan area of 17 million people. 
	 The city's huge $5 billion budget will still be set by the  
president during Cardenas' three-year term. 
	 But the move was a surprise because Zedillo's ruling  
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) created the restrictions 
in the first place in a bid to partly tie the hands of the first 
elected mayor in the city's modern history. 
	 It could also ease fears the already chaotic city was going  
to become a political battleground between the PRI and Cardenas' 
left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). 
	 During the past decade, PRD-backed protests plagued the  
city, snarling traffic and giving the PRI-appointed mayor a 
constant political headache. 
	 ``I want to thank the president publicly for the confidence  
he has shown by respecting the proposals I could make as Mexico 
City mayor in these areas,'' said Cardenas, who added the posts 
would likely be filled from party ranks. 
	 Cardenas, 63, won the mayor's post in a landslide during  
July 6 elections, helping to deal the long-ruling PRI its worst 
ballot box defeat since it took power in 1929. Previously, the 
post was a presidential appointment. 
	 The PRI also lost control of the lower house of Congress for

the first time. 
	 The son of a popular former PRI president, Cardenas broke  
from the party in the mid-1980s and became its harshest critic 
-- twice running unsuccessfully for president and nearly winning 
in 1988. 
	 As Mexico City mayor, arguably the country's second most  
important elected post, Cardenas is expected to sound the PRD's 
political drum on national issues and make another run at the 
country's top post in 2000. 
	 Zedillo surprised Mexicans on election night by warmly  
congratulating the veteran leftist and promising to work 
together to solve the sprawling city's problems. 
	 On Monday, both sides described the meeting as very cordial  
-- unlike the chilly relations between Cardenas and Zedillo's 
predecessor, Carlos Salinas, who never allowed the leftist to 
set foot in Los Pinos, the president's residence. 






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