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Weekly Report - 27 August 2015 (WR-15-34)
MEXICO: Parties stage contrasting leadership elections
The internal elections to appoint new leaders for Mexico’s two main political parties could scarcely have been any more different. The right-of-centre opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was engulfed in an acrimonious contest between politicians representing two warring internal factions and remains a divided force. The leadership vacancy at the head of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), meanwhile, was uncontested. Everything suggests that the party leadership election within Mexico’s third largest party, the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), is more likely to resemble that of the PAN.
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