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"We should take the opportunity to abolish the post altogether. It's existence only feeds factional infighting," another MP texts, just ahead of the timetable for the contest being set out.

In Mexico, security experts say, El Chapo’s relatives could be in danger because of the bloody factional conflict currently raging among rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.

But its inevitable outcome, he argues, is mob rule, bitter factional division, the debasement of civic culture and finally some version of Caesarism.

Setting out his stall, he accused his party of "failing to deliver" on its promises because "factional fighting was more important".

“This factional, vindictive behaviour is designed to humiliate socialist candidates as well as block them.”