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Fox taps PAN stalwart for Creel's post
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| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 04, 2005 05:00am |
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| News Date | Friday, June 3, 2005 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Vicente Fox on Thursday tapped Labor Secretary and National Action Party (PAN) ally Carlos Abascal to take over the reins at the Interior Secretariat after Santiago Creel resigned the day before.
Abascal, considered one of the most conservative members of Fox's cabinet, will be in charge of overseeing the nation's upcoming presidential elections in 2006. He will also direct political, domestic and security affairs for the executive branch.
Creel resigned on Wednesday to begin his campaign for the nation's top post.
"Mexico deserves and will have fair, transparent and respectable elections that strengthen our nation's democratic transition," Abascal said during a televised address with Fox and Creel.
He also hinted he would push for reforms that the Fox government has so far been unable to achieve due to opposition in Congress.
Lawmakers from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) said Abascal was a "negotiator" and said they were willing to give him "the benefit of the doubt" when working with him. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), however, criticized Fox's decision, accusing him of placing a figure from the "ultra-right" in one of the nation's top posts. |
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