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If you're going to be teaching about Mexico next semester, here's a name to become familiar with.A Departing Governor Looks Ahead to a Bigger Prize in Mexico
The most important candidate in Sunday’s election for governor here is the one who is not on the ballot.
Opinion polls for the race in Mexico State, which surrounds Mexico City, show that the candidate from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, will win resoundingly.
But the bigger winner may be the state’s departing governor, Enrique Peña Nieto, the youthful, photogenic early front-runner in the 2012 presidential election campaign.
Analysts say that in passing the job on to a candidate from his party, Mr. Peña Nieto is gathering momentum for his national ambitions…
Mr. Peña Nieto, 44, makes an attractive candidate for an old party trying to persuade voters that it has changed. The other parties argue, though, that he is just a new face on the PRI’s authoritarian past…
Although the election is still far off and neither the PAN nor the PRD has chosen their candidates yet, the parties will have to work hard to dent Mr. Peña Nieto’s popularity. None of the PAN’s potential candidates have generated much enthusiasm. The violence set off by Mr. Calderón’s war on drug cartels as well as a deep recession and an economic recovery that has yet to create many jobs have hurt the party’s standing. The PRD, meanwhile, is riven by internal feuding…
Mexico's opposition PRI wins key state election
Mexico's main opposition party has convincingly held onto a key state in an election seen as an early indicator for next year's presidential poll.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) saw its candidate, Eruviel Avila, elected governor of Mexico State with more than 60% of the vote…
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