Jesús Silva-Herzog, a political commentator, says the allegations play on a public concern that Mr Calderón's conservative National Action Party is too cosy with business.Until now Mr Calderón has confounded the expectation that his narrow mandate would make governing hard.
If a good number of MPs from the new president's party win seats she can count on an absolute majority, which would make governing a lot easier for her.
Opponents of the two-term limit said it would make government less effective by disposing with leaders as soon as they had gained the experience to govern efficiently.
That would make a governing coalition of the two parties possible, but negotiations will be difficult.
Mr Follini himself may sympathise with the liberal cause, but lots of his former colleagues are diehard corporatists who, like him, get most of their votes from the south, where many households depend either on welfare or on public-sector employment.Besides, although an influx of conservative Christian Democrats would make the governing majority bigger, it would also make it more discordant.
A new twist in the increasingly fraught situation came when two Labour lawmakers, Kate Hoey and John Mann, became the first elected Labour representatives since Thursday's vote to demand that Mr. Brown resign, opening the way for a new Labour leader who would make a governing pact with the Liberal Democrats more likely.
What change would make effective governing possible?
Certainly a federal structure devolving power to China's regions would make the job of governing China much easier than the present unwieldy, uncertain dictatorship.
Though he will be able to claim that after barely two months it is hardly his fault if the LDP-led coalosesn loses its majority in the upper house, as was expected at least until Mr Koizumi took over, such an outcome would make the business of governing Japan nearly impossible: the upper house, though not as influential as the lower house, has extensive powers of veto.
Many people suspect that Mr. Mugabe will seek another term despite promises that the old guard in the governing party would make way for a new generation.
The aim is to intimidate those who would make it harder for the governing party to rig a runoff, as well as the opposition supporters working for Mr. Mugabe's defeat, according to civic groups, human rights organizations and Western diplomats.
