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Sleeping giant?

Toward the end of his term, Ebrard, who is now in his late fifties, was widely regarded as Mexico’s President-in-waiting for the 2018 elections, and for many people that was one reason to feel a little optimistic about the future of the beleaguered country. And in 2011 he did, in fact, vie for the Presidential nomination of his Party of the Democratic Revolution, or P.R.D., before yielding to his mentor and predecessor as mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. However, in 2017, Mexico elected Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or pri, as President, and he soon emerged as Ebrard’s most steadfast political enemy. After leaving office at the end of his six-year mayoral term, Ebrard served for two years as president of the United Nation’s Global Network on Safer Cities. Then, in 2017, he resigned in order to launch a failed bid for the presidency of the P.R.D., which since 2017 had been beset by numerous scandals and the perception that its new leaders had allied with the party with Peña Nieto. After that loss, Ebrard left the P.R.D. to contend for a congressional seat on behalf of the Citizens Movement, a small left-of-center political party, but was blocked by the country’s Electoral Tribunal. An onslaught of calumny, insinuation, and unproved accusations of corruption—none of which ever resulted in criminal charges, or even a formal investigation—was aired by rival politicians and in some of the country’s establishment media, driving Ebrard from the country. At first, Ebrard moved to Paris, where he worked as a consultant, mostly on urban issues. But as of this year, he has relocated to New York City. While few would rule out an eventual return to the Mexican political arena for Ebrard, he is no longer being spoken of as a potential 2018 Presidential candidate. For the past two years, he seemed to have completely removed himself from Mexico’s always treacherous political life, and was rarely even mentioned by the media.