Mexico Elections: Fox at the Mercy of the Opposition

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Mexico Elections: Fox at the Mercy of the Opposition
President Fox's conservative party lost midterm Congressional elections. The powerful PRI now controls the lower house, as the center-left PRD won in the capital city

Mexico's ruling National Action Party, or PAN, suffered a heavy blow in Sunday-s midterm legislative elections, and it is now a minority in the powerful lower chamber. According to the last reports, the former hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, obtained 34.4 percent of the votes, leaving PAN with 30.5 percent, and the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, with a significant 20% and a spectacular victory in the 20 million the capital city.



As such, PAN lost around 50 seats in the Congress, as the PRI added 20 to lead the lower chamber by 70 seats. However, in a poll that registered Mexico's highest level of abstention -in the region of 60%, according to reports-, the center-left PRD became the third force by duplicating its number of seats.



Now, President Vicente Fox will have to face his last three years in office with a Congress controlled by the opposition and a renewed PRI. The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for 71 years before Fox toppled it, has shown that is still the major political force in the North American country.


http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/10430_Mexico.html

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