Weekly Report - 19 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

MEXICO | The PRD election. Exit polls suggested that Alejandro Encinas won the election to head the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) on 16 March. The actual count showed that the election was much closer than the exit polls claimed, with barely 3,000 votes separating the candidates when 70% of the ballots had been counted.
Encinas said in the election campaign that he was an admirer of Salvador Allende, the Chilean communist president overthrown by a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. Encinas's main rival, Jesús Ortega, who is a moderate, tellingly, said that he was an admirer of the current Chilean government, which is led by President Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist.

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