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Weekly Report - 18 June 2015 (WR-15-24)
MEXICO: Real political change still distant
Mexico is not undergoing a political earthquake. While some tremors were definitely felt by the country’s established parties after the 7 June federal legislative, gubernatorial, state and municipal elections (most conspicuously the emphatic victory of the independent candidate, Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez, running for governor of Nuevo León) this was no Greece and cannot be classified as indicative of a historic change in political direction as portrayed by some commentators. At least not yet. The final results of the elections to the 500-seat federal lower chamber of congress are a case in point. Here the ruling coalition behind President Enrique Peña Nieto actually slightly increased its majority.
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