Leftist PRD Loses Control of 126 Mexican Cities in Less Than a Decade Fox News Latino
go to original June 29, 2015

Mexico's leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, has experienced a serious decline in support since 2008, losing control of 126 cities and nearly half of the 27 million people it governed seven years ago.

The PRD controlled 410 mayoralties, or 16 percent of the cities in Mexico, in 2008, with that figure dropping to 284, or just 11 percent of the cities in the country, this year, the Mexico City daily El Universal said in a special report.

The leftist party governs just 14 million people at the local level today, down nearly 50 percent from just seven years ago.

In 2008, the PRD, Mexico's largest leftist party, governed the Federal District and the states of Baja California Sur, Zacatecas, Michoacan and Guerrero on its own and one state, Chiapas, as part of a coalition.

The party governs the Federal District and the states of Morelos, Tabasco and Michoacan on its own today, and the states of Puebla and Oaxaca in coalition governments.

Read the restl at Fox News Latino

Related: Violence in Guerrero and the Shifting Tides of Mexican Politics (Forbes)

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!