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Weekly Report - 8 November 2005
MEXICO: The crucial contest will be in congress
Mariano Palacios, president of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), hit the nail on the head when he said last week that the big challenge for the next government will be to ensure its ability to govern by building a majority in congress. As things look at present, the leading party in the presidential stakes, the leftist Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), will fall far short of achieving that on its own.
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