[StJacques]

Well; tomorrow is the day when we find out just who's got the cojones. Fox has guaranteed that he will be present in San Lazaro to hand over the presidential banner to Felipe Calderon, and Calderon himself has guaranteed that he will be there to conduct the ceremony. The PRD and their leftist allies have guaranteed that the presence of either will provoke an effort on their part to prevent the ceremony from proceeding, as they did successfully when preventing Vicente Fox's annual address to the Congress September 1. The Directive Desk of the Chamber of Deputies has stated that the ceremony will proceed. And after Tuesday's violent scenes in the Chamber of Deputies, the PAN and PRD legislative coordinators have signed a non-aggression pact to avoid violence on the floor in the future.

For those of you who remember, the PRD's success in preventing Vicente Fox from giving his national address on September 1st was in large part due to the presence and distraction of violent demonstrators outside, who worked in conjunction with the PRD legislators inside. (See this post #25 in another thread for a translated article with the details.) The presence of the Marines on the legislative grounds at San Lazaro says that they are expecting something similar on this occasion.

Look to hear from me tomorrow on how this all goes down.

 

[StJacques]

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[Dane]

Al Gore is so proud now.

[glorgau]

the PAN and PRD legislative coordinators have signed a non-aggression pact t

Like the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of September 1939? ;-)

[c-b 1]

Is this what we want here in the U.S.?

A few more years of open borders, and that is what we will have.

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

"09:35 Inicia la sesión en la Cámara de Diputados."

The session begins.

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

"* 09:53 Deja Calderón la Tribuna del palacio legislativo. (EL UNIVERSAL)

* 09:50 Calderón se pone la banda presidencial. La recibió de Jorge Zermeño"

Calderon takes the presidential band and leaves.