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Weekly Report - 29 September 2016 (WR-16-38)
MEXICO: The changing face of the PRI?
There are tentative signs that the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is adapting to the times. The PRI suffered several painful reverses in the gubernatorial, state legislative and municipal elections in June, none more so than the loss of governorship of Veracruz, Mexico’s third largest state, for the first time since Gonzalo Vázquez Vela took office way back in 1932. This appears to have woken the PRI up to the need to root out high-level corruption in the party’s ranks, or at least to be seen to be taking action. The PRI had turned a blind eye to myriad allegations of corruption by the governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, before the elections but, just over three months after the party’s defeat in the state, it suspended Duarte, the first serving PRI governor to suffer this fate.
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