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Mexico & Nafta - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Peña Nieto heads for the final strait
On 24 June, a week ahead of the 1 July election, the leading presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, held his first (and only) mass rally, in the Azteca soccer stadium south of Mexico City. The man the traditional Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) hopes will return the party to office after 12 years in the wilderness reassured the crowd that his victory would represent progress and not a step backwards. “We know how to govern democratically” he declared, “I am part of a generation that has grown up under democracy”.
