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Weekly Report - 13 August 2009 (WR-09-32)
MEXICO: Nava wins PAN election, PRD tries to hold together
The two defeated parties in the mid-term congressional elections
decided, on 8 and 11 August, that they would do better to paper over the huge
splits between their various components than indulge in feuding. The ruling
Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) signalled its decision when César Nava easily won
the election for its party presidency on 8 August. The leftwing Partido de la
Revolución Democrática (PRD) showed its desire for uneasy peace by selecting
Alejandro Encinas as the new leader of its savagely reduced rump of deputies in
the lower chamber on 11 August.
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