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The Real Lesson of Mexico’s State Elections

By Theodore Kahn

The ruling PRI lost big in Mexico’s state elections June 5, but the problems go deeper than any one party.

Mexicans from the U.S. border to the Yucatan peninsula issued a strong rebuke to President Enrique Peña Nieto and his ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in state elections on Sunday. The PRI lost governorships in six of the nine states it held going into the vote, including four – Durango, Quintana Roo, Tamaulipas and Veracruz – where the party has ruled without interruption since the 1940s. The clear beneficiary was the National Action Party (PAN), which will govern eleven of Mexico’s thirty-one states after Sunday’s results, the most in its history.

The results are...

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