LatinNews Daily Report - 16 March 2012

Mexico | Back and forth. Fernando Larrazabal, the controversial Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) mayor of Monterrey, will now stand for a first-past-the-post seat in the federal congress (in District 10) and not for a proportionally-elected seat, which he was certain to win. The PAN candidate for District 10 will now head the party’s proportionally-elected list. Larrazabal is controversial because his supporters have taken control of the PAN in Nuevo León and financed the party at both the state and national level.

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