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Weekly Report - 17 August 2017 (WR-17-32)

MEXICO: PRI not quite fighting fit?

President Enrique Peña Nieto closed the 22nd national assembly of the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in the south-eastern state of Campeche on 12 August with a ringing declaration that it was ready to fight and win the 2018 presidential elections. Not everyone shares his optimism within the party. Dissident factions of the PRI clamouring for an overhaul of the party statutes to shift power away from party bigwigs and towards the rank-and-file membership were thrown a number of sops. But it was not the major modernisation hailed by the party president, Enrique Ochoa Reza, fundamentally because real power remains concentrated in the hands of the PRI hierarchy.

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