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Weekly Report - 11 June 2015 (WR-15-23)
Mexico’s elections reaffirm PRI’s sway but shake status quo
Virtually all of Mexico’s political parties were able to dress up the 7 June federal legislative, state and municipal midterm elections as a victory, although the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) required most spin to do so. Happiest will be the radical left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), which shattered the PRD’s hegemony in the Distrito Federal (DF); and President Enrique Peña Nieto as the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its allies retained control of the federal lower chamber of deputies. The PRI, however, suffered some humbling defeats at state level, foremost among which was the governorship of Nuevo León which fell to Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez, the first victory ever by an independent candidate and one of several black eyes sustained by the political establishment.
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