Weekly Report - 18 May 2004

The first of this year's long round of state elections, held in Yucatán on 16 May, came as a nasty shock to the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which had expected to wrest from the ruling Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), if not the governorship, at least many of its seats in the state legislature and the mayoralty of the state capital, Mérida. Instead, the PAN emerged as the clear winner.