In 1994, Mexico held its first televised presidential debate. The candidate of the PAN, Diego Fernández de Cevallos, was seen as the winner. In a poll released the next day by the PAN’s secretary general, Felipe Calderón, “54 por ciento de los entrevistados pensaba que el panista se había llevado la noche” (54 percent of those interviewed thought that the PAN candidate had won the night). Ernesto Zedillo had 24 percent and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas 8 percent.
In 2014, the news site Sopitas recalled: “En los días siguientes, extrañamente, Diego Fernández desapareció de los medios de comunicación” (In the following days, strangely, Diego Fernández disappeared from the media).