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The PRI's 2006 Electoral Debacle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Joy Langston
Joy Langston
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
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This short article outlines why the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which governed Mexico for the final 71 years of the twentieth century, not only lost the 2006 presidential election, but posted a miserable third place finish by taking only 22.7% of the national vote versus 36.7% for the winner, Felipe Calderón of the center-right National Action Party (PAN) and 36.1% for the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). It also explains why, despite its recent electoral results, the once-hegemonic party will continue to play an important, but reduced political role: as a coalition partner with the governing PAN to create majorities in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Type
SYMPOSIUM—THE 2006 MEXICAN ELECTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 21 - 25
Copyright
© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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