Time is rapidly running out for Mexico’s state congresses to harmonise their legislation with the politico-electoral reform approved by the federal congress. More than half of the country’s states are holding elections in 2015 and two of these – Jalisco and Nuevo León – are yet to adjust their legislation accordingly. Mexico’s two main parties are at loggerheads over minor points within the reform and both blame each other but there is much more at stake than the elections. The president of the opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Gustavo Madero, has also conditioned his party’s support for the all-important secondary legislation on energy and telecommunications reform on the states adopting the politico-electoral reform. He cannot back down without losing face but ultimately this might mean that it is the PAN and not the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) that has to make concessions.
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