The interior minister, Santiago Creel, denied that the government had done a deal with the biggest party in congress, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), over the allegations about how the PRI financed its election campaign in 2000. Charges against 11 members of the PRI for money laundering were dropped in July by the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR): coincidentally, the PGR also dropped money laundering charges against members of the team that financed President Vicente Fox's successful election bid in 2000. Two senior politicians, one from the PRI and another from Partido Acción Nacional, both said that a line should now be drawn under the 2000 elections.
The third main party in congress, the Partido de la Revolución Democrática, is suspicious. Its most prominent member, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that events like the dropping of charges against the priístas showed why people were losing interest in politics and were not voting. He said that it was crazy for people to claim that there was a fraud and a conspiracy and then, when it comes to the crunch, do absolutely nothing.
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