Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Mexican electoral court in action

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the PRI challenge to the Baja California governor's race was without merit.

Jorge Hank Rhon is known as one of the PRI's dinosaurs and one of the richest men in Mexico. Is Millan a PAN dinosaur?

Mexican panel upholds Baja California's gubernatorial election

"An effort to annul the Baja California governor's electionwas thrown out early Tuesday morning by Mexico's top electoral court.

"The much-awaited decision by the federal electoral tribunal clears the way for Thursday's inauguration of Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, a 51-year-old economist and member of the National Action Party, or PAN.

"The ruling is final and ends demands by supporters of losing candidate Jorge Hank Rhon for a new election. A controversial businessman and former Tijuana mayor, Hank was backed by a coalition led by Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI..."


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