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Mexico & Nafta - October 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)
PRI bid to change image mocked
“For the first time in history the PRI has suspended a serving governor,” the president of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Enrique Ochoa Reza, said on 26 September after Mexico’s federally ruling party finally took action against the outgoing governor of Veracruz state, Javier Duarte, in the wake of a series of damaging corruption allegations. Ochoa, who took over the party reins after the public dished out several humbling defeats to the PRI in June’s gubernatorial, state legislative, and municipal elections, including the loss of the governorship of Veracruz for the first time in nearly 84 years, intended his remark to signal his intention to launch a crusade against party corruption. Detractors, however, were quick to point out that it shows just how poor the PRI’s track record is at tackling corruption, and cast doubt on this being a genuine change of policy.
