As someone who contributed to the PRI’s defeat, I would prefer a different victor this year: an independent candidate, a center-left social democrat, or a center-right leader running on the best parts of Fox’s and outgoing President Felipe Calderón’s record (while repudiating Calderón’s bloody and futile war of choice against Mexico’s drug lords). But I reject the notion that a PRI victory would automatically restore the status quo ante, as if Mexico, its links to the world, and the PRI itself had stood still throughout the last 12 years.
作为当年参与击败革命制度党的当事人之一，我更希望今年能有一场不一样的胜利：一位独立候选人，一位中左翼社会民主派，或是一位具备了福克斯以及即将下台的总统费利佩·卡尔德隆（Felipe Calderón）的优点，同时有能否定后者伤亡惨重且收效甚微的打击毒枭“选择之战”的中右翼领袖。但我也不赞成那些认定革命制度党胜利就意味着一切将自动恢复原状的说法，似乎在他们看来墨西哥自身，该国与世界的联系以及革命制度党在过去12年都原地踏步似的。