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Weekly Report - 10 July 2014 (WR-14-27)

MEXICO: PRI records crushing victories

The federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) swept elections in the northern state of Coahuila and the Pacific coastal state of Nayarit on 6 July. These were widely seen as a warm-up for elections to renew the federal chamber of deputies and in 17 of Mexico’s 32 federal entities in July 2015. The opposition will have gained a measure of satisfaction, however, from the adoption of the politico-electoral reform by the final two states of Jalisco and Nuevo León. Its hope, probably misplaced, is that this reform will mark the beginning of the end for PRI dominance at state level.

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