The PRI's Losses are Peña Nieto's Gains
The PRI's Losses are Peña Nieto's Gains
Mexico's July election results could help Enrique Peña Nieto's push for reforms, despite modest losses for the PRI.
MEXICO CITY —Mexico’s July 7 local elections, held in half of the country’s states, were the first since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office. As such, they served as a quasi-referendum on the president’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party—PRI), and provide the political backdrop against which Peña Nieto will push his agenda to remake Mexico into a global powerhouse with a vibrant, reformed democracy.
On the surface, the election results represented a mild defeat for Peña Nieto. Out of 13 state capital mayoralties in play, the PRI...
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