He has ruled out running for the leadership himself but said the party needed a fresh face.
Without a president to name its candidate, then, for Sunday's election, the PRI needed a fresh face who was also acceptable to the powers-that-be.
"Sometimes a start-up needs to change gear and change its management for it to go to the next level and the Oldham by-election to me said very clearly that I think we need a fresh face".
"I think perhaps Enron, in its present situation, needed a fresh face with a lot of experience," said Mr. Troubh, 75, a former general partner at Lazard Frères, the investment bank, who describes himself as a professional director.
"For us to unite, we probably need a fresh face," he said.
"If we are going to united and be strong, we need a fresh face to do this," he said.
But O'Rourke is also a kind of Rorschach test for anyone involved in Democratic politics: Does the party need a fresh face, or does it need more than cosmetic changes?
According to Mr. De Jesus, "The city needs a fresh, uncontaminated face".
He then went on to discuss the resignation saying, "Now…as you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio... he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap".
