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Weekly Report - 09 June 2016 (WR-16-22)

MEXICO: Reborn PAN rolls back PRI hegemony

The word ‘historic’ is frequently abused when it comes to elections but its use was entirely justified in relation to Mexico’s gubernatorial contests on 5 June. Never before has the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) been reduced to controlling fewer than half of the country’s 32 federal entities. It now holds just 15 after losing six of the nine state governorships it was defending, including four that have never been governed by another party. Never before had the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) won three governorships in one single day. It won seven, four under its own steam and three in coalition with the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). While the PRI sinks into introspection, the results vault the PAN into contention for the presidency in 2018, although the onus is now on the PAN to govern well or it will be punished itself by an increasingly volatile electorate.

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