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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Legislators Cheer a 'Muted' Fox
 EFE/El Universal
| | Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is telling all in a memoir that will detail his ups and down with world leaders around the globe, from Cuban's Fidel Castro to U.S. President George W. Bush, Viking announced Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills) |
After former President Vicente Fox said he will make no more public statements to avoid creating political problems, opposition legislators celebrated gleefully on Saturday.
"I´m not going to say anything. They´ve hushed me up," said Fox, who was approached by a reporter from EL UNIVERSAL on Friday in the Panama airport, where he was waiting for a connection to the Dominican Republic for a meeting of the Christian Democrat Organization.
"I´m not going to say anything because the fellow up there gets annoyed," Fox said, referring to his successor Felipe Calderón, who also belongs to the National Action Party (PAN).
Convergencia party Deputy José Manuel del Río, congratulated Fox for saying he would speak no more, but he went even further. "Vicente Fox should also renounce the pension he receives as ex-president," he said.
Deputy César Duarte of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) concurred with del Río.
"But I also hope he realizes he has been imprudent," he said.
Fox, the first opposition president after seven decades of PRI rule, sparked conflicts during his term, some of them international, by his proverbial loquacity.
Contrary to his promise when his term in office ended on Nov. 30, 2006, that he would retire to his ranch with his wife, Fox has been very active in recent weeks with public statements that have provoked political scandals that have rankled Calderón.
But Fox is not the only member of the PAN to make explosive statements. Analysts believe there is a campaign afoot orchestrated by the PAN´s hard-line conservatives who do not support the current president.
Among them is the president of the PAN, Manuel Espino, who criticized the anti-terrorist policy of the Spanish government when Calderón visited Madrid in January, and former Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal, who recently said Calderón was not the PAN´s best possible candidate. |
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