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Mexico & Nafta - July 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Electoral results push party presidents to resign

Ricardo Anaya is the last man standing. The youngest president in the history of the right-wing opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) outperformed, and has now outlasted, his rivals from both of Mexico’s other two main political parties. Within two weeks of the gubernatorial, state legislative and local elections held on 5 June, both Agustín Basave, the president of the left-wing opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), and Manlio Fabio Beltrones, the president of the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), had resigned. But while the PAN was the clear overall victor of the elections [RM-16-06], there is no guarantee it will remain in the ascendancy, given the clear volatility of Mexico’s electorate, in the run-up to the presidential elections in 2018.

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