Another lies in having weakened and neutralized the left-wing opposition, and being able to govern without major confrontations in the streets or Congress. Other changes – a counter-productive electoral reform, a minor revenue-enhancing tax reform, and hypothetical oil-sector reform – all suffer from Calderón’s penchant for minimalism: enacting legislation seems more important to him than the content.
他的少数几个成功包括国家雇员养老金改革，这一改革使养老金系统免予破产。另一个成功是削弱和压制了左翼反对派，使他能在在街上以及议会里没有重大对抗的情况下管理国家。其他的变化——一个达不到目的的选举改革，一个较小的增加税收的税费改革以及假想的石油部门改革——都受到了卡尔德龙极简主义倾向的不利影响：对他来说，似乎制定法律比法律的内容更加重要。