Mexico & Nafta - December 2007 (ISSN 1741-444X)

The final round of state elections this year took place on 11 November and produced, as expected, a win for the leftwing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) in Michoacán, the most important of the elections. The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which has done by far the best of all the three major parties in 2007, did well in its two bastions of Puebla and Tamaulipas. The only comfort for the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) was its decent performance in the small and faction-ridden state of Tlaxcala, and its success in the state congress elections in Michoacán.

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