Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Saturday, May 26, 2007

It's not over in Mexico until...

The Economist reported on the election in the Mexican state of Yucatan and a possible trend in politics.

Youthful in Yucatán

"[I]n the end the election for state governor in Yucatán was notable for what is changing in Mexico rather than what remains the same. First Felipe Calderón [called]... Ivonne Ortega of the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to congratulate her on her victory. Second, Ms Ortega [celebrating below at right] seems to stand for what the PRI would like to be rather than what it once was...

"Having governed Mexico for seven decades until 2000, the PRI came a poor third in last year's presidential election. It holds the balance of power in Congress and has the largest number of state governorships. But its future depends on its ability to shed its previous corporatist habits and to reinvent itself as a modern centrist party...

"The signs are that the PRI will win the next election for state governor, in August in Baja California—another state governed by the PAN..."




See Aventaja Ivonne a Xavier en Yucatán from Mileneo Politica.


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