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He says that Mexico's deep inequalities mean that the PRD cannot just be a moderate European centre-left party, but nor can it be so radical as to become a movement outside the country's institutions.
ECONOMIST: The left��s moderate radical
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He has also managed to move some 15, 000 street vendors out of the city centre a tricky operation given that they have traditionally formed part of the PRD's political clientele.
ECONOMIST: The left��s moderate radical
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Although the party has yet to prove it has the ability to beat the PLD in 2010 legislative elections, it is likely to benefit from the electorate's disenchantment and perhaps improve upon the 40% share of the vote that PRD candidate, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, received in the 2008 presidential election.
ECONOMIST: Discontent is rising in the Dominican Republic