Latinnews Daily - 3 November 2003

Two of the opposition political parties and most of the press have criticised the government's choice of new electoral commissioners. Of the nine commissioners, five were nominees from the biggest party in congress, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), and four came from the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), to which President Vicente Fox belongs. The Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) runs all federal elections in the country. The new board was picked by the lower chamber of congress.

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