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| | Mexico - Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
 | | In his efforts to broaden and democratize the PRI, Salinas distanced the party from the PRI-affiliated labor unions and ejido associations, while seeking a reconciliation between the PRI and its historical adversaries, such as foreign investors, agribusiness, private banks, the Roman Catholic Church, and export industries. | | | In accordance with political reforms approved in the early 1990s, the PRI's National Assembly is expected to assume a much more significant role in nominating the party's presidential candidate for the election to be held in the year 2000. | | | Until the early 1980s, the PRI's position in the Mexican political system was hegemonic, with opposition parties posing little or no threat to its power base or its near monopoly of public office. |
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| | Noticiero Highlights for July 2000 |
| | Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) legislator Hugo Sanchez accuses Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) representative from Oaxaca of involvement in death of indian Jose Artemio Perez. | | | Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) senator pushing to clarify origin of funds used in president-elect Vicente Fox's electoral campaign. | | | Mexico City Judicial authorities prosecute Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) members of former Mexico City mayor Oscar Espinoza's administration on charges of corruption. |
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http://www.radiobilingue.org/archive/noticierotoday-prevjuly2000.htm
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| | Institutional Revolutionary party on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Established in 1929 as the National Revolutionary party by former President Plutarco Calles, it brought together the country's governmental, military, and agricultural leaders in a program of socioeconomic reform. | | | In the 1997 National Congress elections the party lost its majority in the lower house, although it remained the largest party. | | | (Democratic Revolutionary Party's election wins end 68-year-old grip by the Institutional Revolutionary Party - PRI as Catholic hierarchy, who backed a third party, remain silent)(Editorial) |
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| | Mexico's Ruling Party Losing in Key State Elections |
| | MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's ruling party was reeling Monday as early election results showed it losing several key cities in state elections that reflected deep voter anger over the country's economic crisis and a series of government corruption scandals. | | | Sunday's voting in three states was seen as an important bellwether before July's midterm elections for the federal Congress and the first-ever direct election of the mayor of Mexico City. | | | With 78 percent of the vote counted, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, appeared to have lost three of Mexico state's biggest towns. |
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| | Mexico's PRI opens presidential primary to all - Boston.com - Latin America/Caribbean - News |
| | The main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, once notorious for ruling Mexico through backroom deals, will ask all the country's voters to choose its candidate for 2006 presidential polls. | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, once notorious for ruling Mexico through backroom deals, will ask all the country's voters to choose its candidate for 2006 presidential polls. | | | National opinion polls put Madrazo, from the tropical state of Tabasco, in a distant second place for the presidential election, behind Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist mayor of Mexico City. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/07/12/mexicos_pri_opens_presidential_primary_to_all
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| | The former delegate of the Secretariat of Government also raised the possibility of seeking the PRD nomination to run for Mayor or for a seat in the state legislature. | | | At the time only party Secretary of Operations and Political Action Artemio Iglesías had openly announced his intention to run for office, while PRI groups in Juárez and Delicias had expressed support for Mario de la Torre Hernández, former mayor of Juárez and former federal delegate. | | | Terrazas Sánchez switched his affiliation to the left-of-center Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD). |
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| | Border Politics |
| | Leaders from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD), the major opposition parties to the PAN, said it is not necessary for Galindo to return to his old position. | | | A group of local Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) members headed by municipal leader Sergio Vázquez Olivas are demanding the resignation Héctor González Mocken, loser of the bungled May 9 PRI mayoral primary and currently Secretary General of the State Directive Committee. | | | Specifically, González Mocken is accused of ordering his sympathizers to vote for Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) mayoral candidate Nora Elena Yu Hernandez, thus helping to defeat PRI candidate Jose Eleno Villalva, González' rival in the May 9 primary. |
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| | SourceMex - Economic News & Analysis on Mexico; December 18, 1996 |
| | According to political observers, Onate Laborde was pressured into resigning by PRI leaders who were extremely displeased with the party's relatively poor performance in municipal and state elections during the past several months. | | | In addition to the party's recent electoral misfortunes, the PRI was also faced with growing dissent within its ranks. | | | Both PAN president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and his PRD counterpart Andres Lopez Obrador suggested Roque Villanueva's appointment represents a further hardening of the PRI's determination to win the 1997 elections "at all costs." Calderon and Lopez Obrador were referring to the PRI's adamant opposition to limits on campaign spending for the upcoming elections. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly International PRI outfoxed at last |
| | The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has enjoyed an uninterrupted hold on power for the past 71 years, also lost in both houses of the Mexican Congress. | | | Zedillo, whose six-year term began inauspiciously with a botched devaluation, felt compelled to break the golden rule of Mexican politics by actually investigating his predecessor. | | | After this, ground-breaking reforms of the political system became inevitable. |
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| | Mexico's PRI leads voting in six states |
| | With 60.5 percent of the votes for Michoacan governor counted, official returns showed the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ahead with 38.4 percent, the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) with 29.5 percent and the National Action Party with 28.8 percent. | | | At noon, the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate for mayor of Puebla City, German Sierra Sanchez, conceded defeat. | | | He wished the best to the National Action winner, Gabriel Hinojosa Rivero, and said he would return to his federal Senate seat. |
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| | Oldest party in Mexico celebrates 75th anniversary |
| | He called for party unity as the PRI selects candidates for upcoming elections -- even soliciting the support of Beatriz Paredes, whom he defeated in 2002 to lead the party. | | | A leadership struggle within the party late last year split in two the PRI faction in the lower house of Congress and broke up the PRI-dominated national public employees' union. | | | In 2003 national midterm elections, the PRI allied itself with the small Green Party and extended its plurality in both houses of Congress -- although it fell short of a majority. |
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| | MexicoPRI |
| | They responded by opting for PRI defector Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (47 percent), nominee of the leftist-nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) over the standard-bearers of the PRI (25 percent) and the center-right National Action Party or PAN (15 percent). | | | Recent electoral reforms advocated by Mexico's President Ernesto Zedillo have enabled voters to punish the PRI, his own party, for its history of graft, nepotism, and venality. | | | Encouraged by the remarkable openness of the 1997 contests, Ricardo Monreal Avila - the PRI's number-two man in the Chamber of Deputies, a former senator, and an attractive progressive with broad intra-party backing - began barnstorming the north-central state of Zacatecas with an eye to capturing the statehouse. |
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http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/LatinAmerReadings/MexicoPRI.html
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| | ALERT - Vol. 2, No. 14 |
| | Another PRI puppet party, the Workers Party (PT), headed by Alberto Anaya, fell from being the fourth to the fifth national political party. | | | In the national legislature, the Institutional Revolutionary Party suffered a devastating defeat, losing its majority in the congress for the first time in 70 years. | | | Not only did Cardenas win the mayoral election, but his party also carried 38 out of 40 "majority wins" seats in the Legislative Assembly. |
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| | New battleground |
| | Along with a new president, voters will elect a new Congress and three governors in the July 2 vote. | | | When Fox wrested the presidency from the PRI that same year, he made Creel his secretary of government, a kind of vice president, chief of staff and interior minister all rolled into one. | | | It was the first legislature in which the PRI did not win an outright majority of seats. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Latin America |
| | The success of the Institutional Revolutionary Party underscores its strength ahead of the 2006 presidential election, said Jose Antonio Crespo, an analyst at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico Cityy. | | | Enrique Pena, a former state administrator, won the governorship in the state of Mexico, the nation's largest state, with 47.6 percent of the vote, according to the state& electoral institute. | | | July 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's largest political party, kept the governorships seats in two states in weekend elections, poll results show. |
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| | Mexico's Ruling Party Loses Presidency in Historic Election |
| | Finally, we have won," declared a weeping PAN senator, Maria Elena Alvarez, at the party headquarters. | | | The PRI lost control of the lower house for the first time in 1997 and always has had a majority in the Senate. | | | The balloting was overseen for the first time by an independent authority, the Federal Electoral Institute, the showpiece of sweeping legal reforms instituted in the last few years. |
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| | Behind the Headlines |
| | He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Libertarian Studies, and writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. | | | He is blunt, but charismatic, and has succeeded in extending the appeal of his party way beyond its northern, middle-class base. | | | ox, his chief opponent – who, in a burst of political incorrectness, once called his opponent "Shorty" – is the governor of the northern province of Guanajuato whose National Action Party has been able to wrest several northern governorships from the PRI in recent years. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Opinion Similar, yet different |
| | Once a state ruled by one party, Mexico gradually became a multi-party state, with opposition parties realising relative gains in the local elections. | | | Credit for the democratic transformation should go to former President Zedillo, who managed during his term to introduce a number of political reforms that renewed confidence in the electoral process, purifying it of corruption. | | | Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party remained in power for 71 years, and was finally dislodged following the most recent elections. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| | The PRI also lost its majority in the lower house of Congress as opponents accused the party of corruption. | | | In 1997, its founder, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was elected mayor of Mexico City, placing opposition authority in the country's second most-powerful post. | | | Though some consider the party's reign an autocracy, the PRI is the world's longest-governing political party. |
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| | Tijuana's first Jewish city councilman at Tijuana City Council, Tijuana, Mexico |
| | Saul, 35, was elected as a regidor last July 29 in balloting that saw the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) obtain 6 of the council's 15 seats, and the National Action Party (PAN) obtain 7 seats as well as the mayor's chair. | | | One seat was won by the left-wing Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD). | | | Tijuana, Mexico (special) -- When David Saul Guakil, son of Turkish immigrants, begins his three-year term of office Dec. 1 as a Tijuana City Councilman, he will be the first Jew in that city's history to occupy that office. |
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| | Presidential hopeful up in Mexican polls - Boston.com |
| | He's a lawyer with a graduate degree from Harvard who has dedicated years to his party, serving as its general director and as a congressman before briefly becoming Fox's energy secretary. | | | He is barred by the constitution from seeking a second term, and Calderon wasn't his preferred successor. | | | Many of the president's top reforms have stalled in Congress, blocked by the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the Democratic Revolutionary Party, which is led by front-running presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. |
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| | americas.org - Lawmakers Spar, Literally |
| | A September 11 appearance by Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz in the Chamber of Deputies was interrupted by a fist fight between an opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) deputy and one from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). | | | Meanwhile, the first Congress in modern history without a PRI majority has been wracked by dissension over control of key commissions. | | | After many legislators stopped attending sessions, saying that no work was being done, the Congress voted to fine each absent legislator a day’s pay for each missed day. |
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| | Zogby International |
| | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party is third at 9.3%. | | | The survey of 1062 likely voters throughout Mexico who are decided on how they will vote, shows that Fox, representing the National Action Party, leads Mexican President Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, 46.3% - 41.6%. | | | Candidates Porfirio Muñoz Ledo of the Mexican Revolution Authentic Party, Manuel Camacho of the Democratic Center Party and Gilberto Rincón Gallardo of the Social Democratic Party share the remaining 2.6%. |
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| | BBC News AMERICAS End of era for all-powerful party |
| | In terms of winning elections, the PRI was the world's most successful political party. | | | Since then, Colosio's replacement and current president Ernesto Zedillo has introduced wide-ranging democratic reforms, and in 1997, the PRI lost its majority in congress for the first time. | | | Until the defeat of its presidential candidate Francisco Labastida, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, had never lost a presidential election in all its 71 years of history. |
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| | Salon News Choice or corruption? |
| | Thousands of voting booths were installed throughout the country, open to all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation; election observers were put into place to assure that there were no irregularities; and four candidates waged a two-month-long official campaign. | | | But in the end, the voters chose not to change. | | | Sunday's elections marked the first time in the party's 70-year rule that it voted on a presidential candidate, as opposed to having the candidate hand- |
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| | MEXICO: Ruling party's defeat changes political panorama |
| | Considerably behind were PRI candidate Francisco Labastida with 35.7% and Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), with 16.5%. | | | The president, in turn, has been the de facto leader of the ruling party and chooses his successor. | | | Some of the old guard, such as Puebla Governor Manuel Bartlett, charge the neo-liberal and technocratic wing of the party with responsibility for the disaster at the polls, by having led the party to the right. |
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorials |
| | Making his third bid for the presidency is the mayor of Mexico City, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the nominee of the liberal Party of the Democratic Revolution. | | | That would have sounded a sour note and perhaps defeated the purpose of the election. | | | FOR the first time in its 70-year domination of Mexican politics, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has held a primary election to determine its presidential candidate to succeed President Ernesto Zedillo. |
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| | Madero, Francisco Indalecio on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A champion of democracy and social reform, he established various humanitarian institutions for the peons on his family's vast estates in Coahuila. | | | Díaz, at first contemptuous of his opponent, finally imprisoned Madero and won the election, as usual, without difficulty. | | | In 1910 he was the Anti-Reelectionist party's presidential candidate, with a program emphasizing effective suffrage and non-reelection. |
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| | Catholic World News : Mexico's elections herald new era in Central America |
| | I predict that the relationship with the government will be cordial and of mutual respect, open to a frank, honest dialogue based on the ten commitments the President made during his electoral campaign. | | | With only 38 percent of the seats in the Congress, PAN will have to negotiate almost any initiative, pronably with PRI legislators, since the third force, the left-wing Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), has called Fox's election "a disaster for Mexico." | | | PAN candidates, always regarded as Church-friendly, time and against lost any election for president or governor, and only received enough places in Congress and the Senate to keep the facade of a democracy. |
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| | COLUMN ONE: Conducting an Overt Operation |
| | Four candidates are competing for the PRI vote in November. | | | Why would a party seeking democratic credentials turn to a man often called Mexico's J. Edgar Hoover? | | | Many Mexicans question whether a fair election is possible in a party accustomed to vote fraud, in which the president traditionally has named his successor through the dedazo--or big finger. |
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| | Online NewsHour: El Dedazo -- November 8, 1999 |
| | With the first the Institutional Revolutionary Party primary election now a part of history, the decades-old practice of "el dedazo" -- the presidential appointment of the party's next nominee -- has ended. | | | Party leaders organized the November 7 primary election to pick the PRI nominee for the 2000 election, the first primary of its kind in party history. | | | The winner -- and PRI presidential nominee -- will be sworn in as party candidate on November 20 and begin campaigning for the election scheduled for July 2, 2000. |
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| | Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta |
| | (PRI), he was elected (1985) to the Mexican congress, later became a senator, and served (1988–92) as party head. | | | Institutional Revolutionary party - Institutional Revolutionary party, Span. | | | Magdalena del Kino, Mex. He studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and in Austria, returning to Mexico, where he began his political career. |
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| | CNN - Mexico Elections '97 |
| | Mexico's viability as a democracy is on the line as voters go to the polls in midterm elections for federal and regional leaders July 6. | | | Three major parties dominate the politics of Mexico -- the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the Democratic Revolutionary Party and the National Action Party. | | | Results from the Mexican elections suggest the grip of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is weakening after almost seven decades in power. |
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| | americas.org - Fox Gains on Labastida |
| | This year, the Federal Electoral Institute is independent. | | | Cárdenas, the candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), lags so far behind that some of his supporters have suggested he withdraw so the opposition can unite behind Fox. | | | The nation’s presidential race has suddenly heated up as Vicente Fox Quesada of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) has made inroads against Francisco Labastida Ochoa, nominee of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). |
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| | ASU Research E-Magazine: Politics, Power, and Pesos |
| | In a country ruled predominantly by the Institutional Revolutionary Party since 1929—PRI, in its Spanish acronym—the inauguration of an opposition-party mayor was an historic event. | | | “Conventional institutional politics at the national level are not the be-all and end-all of what’s going on,” Erfani says. | | | In her 1995 book, The Paradox of the Mexican State: Rereading Sovereignty from Independence to NAFTA, Erfani contends that Mexico’s long and stable political regime, dominated by the PRI, fostered a myth of economic strength through government subsidy and partial ownership of many industries. |
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| | Mexico's Former Ruling Party Stumbles on the Road Back to Power - New York Times |
| | He did the unthinkable in 1999 — refusing a direct order from President Ernesto Zedillo to step down as governor of Tabasco and take a cabinet post. | | | But today, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is deeply divided after a bloody, internal fight for the presidential nomination. | | | His public image is so negative that he has started using only his first name in the headlines of campaign posters and pamphlets, his aides said, to try to warm up his image and distance himself from the taint of his last name. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/international/americas/26mexico.html?ex=1298610000&en=bb16fafcfc741a08&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | CNN - Mexico Elections '97 |
| | The PRI currently holds 94 seats in the Senate and 298 in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies. | | | The Institutional Revolutionary Party seized control in 1929 and, to date, has never let go. | | | As the party in charge, it is already defined in connection with all that Mexico currently is, for better and for worse. |
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| | In other elections July 2, the PAN gained legislative ground in the lower house of congress (Chamber of Deputies.) Though lacking an overall majority, the PAN displaced the PRI as the largest party in congress. | | | Mexico Opposition Unites Against PRI in Chiapas -- Three weeks after the defeat of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in national elections, eight opposition parties joined forces on Monday against the PRI in the Chiapas governor's race. | | | On July 2, 2000 Mexican citizens went to the polls and elected Vicente Fox Quesada of the National Action Party (PAN) as their new president -- ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI.) While Fox's victory clearly signifies change, the challenges of social justice and reform lie ahead. |
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| | Francisco Labastida Ochoa News - The New York Times |
| | THE MEXICO ELECTION: BALLOTING IN THE VILLAGES; An Anxious Vigil in Mexico's Political Trenches | | | Leaders of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party united to denounce a government investigation into whether more than $100 million was embezzled from the state-run oil company. | | | By ROSS E. Rogelio Montemayor Seguy's legal case has become a focal point in the struggle between President Vicente Fox and his powerful opposition in the Institutional Revolutionary Party. |
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