Mexican election could return old rulers to power

[FarCenter]

MEXICO CITY — The party that ruled Mexico for most of the past century looked set for a comeback on Sunday as voters chose a new president, seeking an end to a brutal drug war and weak economic growth that have worn down the ruling conservatives.

Twelve years after the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost power, opinion polls showed its candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, heading into the vote with a double-digit lead over his opponents despite lingering doubts about the party.

Tainted by corruption, electoral fraud and occasional bouts of brutal authoritarianism during its 71 years in power, the PRI was voted out in 2000. It has bounced back, helped by the economic malaise and a tide of lawlessness that have plagued Mexico under the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.

Pena Nieto, a youthful-looking former governor of the State of Mexico, has established himself as the new face of the PRI with the aid of favorable media coverage led by Mexico's most powerful broadcaster, Televisa.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48033435/ns/world_news-americas/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Pena Nieto is a technocrat if you ever knew one

and believe it or not very handsome and that is actually playing a role with voters.

And could, MSNBC should do better to read the polls, if he does not, something really smells... really.

The PAN candidate, a woman, a snowball in hell has a better chance, and this year Lopez Obrador has a slightly better chance than her, but not by much. His ball of ice would last ten more seconds.

Let me add a photo

[David__77]

2. PRI and PRD come from the same historical roots.

I'm hopeful that the labor-farmer foundation of the PRI will assert itself.

PAN was always cut from the cloth of fascism and clericalism.