(Adam: Isn't the President of Mexico Peņa Nieto and not Calderon?)
No: Calderon is in his second term.
MEXICAN SPERG TIME:In 2007, NAP and the Coalition for the Good of All made history by forging a makeshift alliance of sorts to weaken what waning strength PRI had at the time. Perhaps an apt comparison to this in Atlasia is an effort by both the Labor Party and the Federalist Party to weaken the Liberal Party's ability to return to glory after it lost control of the Senate and the Presidency; the Federalists saw opportunity to permanently weaken the left and the Laborites wanted to stop what it perceived to be a pro-business, liberal chokehold on the country ("what's the difference between a Federalist and a Liberal?").
One of the key reforms pushed through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate at the onset was a constitutional amendment that would allow the President, federal legislators and local mayors to serve two consecutive, six-year terms. This amendment was passed in late 2007. Despite opposition within the coalition and worries that this would further empower any future PRI comeback, its roughly 80% control of congress allowed for the amendment to pass.
While the former coalition ceased to exist in late 2009, its policy initiatives and continued negative public perception of PRI were enough to stave off a major resurgence of the left, allowing Calderon to win in 2012 and keeping PRI's Senate plurality from being much larger than that of NAP (40-35). PRI still dominates in the Chamber of Deputies, however.
