Audio: Mexico's Midterm Elections - What's Next?
Audio: Mexico's Midterm Elections - What's Next?
AS/COA held a teleconference discussion about Mexico's midterm elections featuring remarks by Denise Dresser, a political analyst at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. The conversation focused on what the outcome means for President Felipe Calderón and the 2012 presidential race. Listen to the audio.
AS/COA held a teleconference discussion about Mexico's midterm elections featuring remarks by Denise Dresser, a political analyst at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. On July 5, the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) captured a majority of seats in the lower house of Congress as well as five out of the six governorships up for grabs. Dresser laid out three main arguments about what election results mean: President Felipe Calderón emerges weakened and in lame duck status, the PRI resurges as a major political force, and the comeback of the PRI can be attributed in part to the crumbling of Mexico's Left.
Listen to a podcast of the teleconference:
