Mexico Ruling PRI Party Routed in Regional Vote on Graft, Gang Violence Dave Graham - Reuters
go to original June 6, 2016

Mexico election: Voting held across most of the country (CCTV News)

Update: FACTBOX - Mexico Ruling Party Loses Powerful States in Regional Vote (Reuters)

Mexico's ruling party lost several bastions in Sunday's regional elections, dealing a heavy blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto for failing to crack down on corruption and gang violence.

The rout will help set the tone for the next presidential election in 2018, underscoring deep discontent over graft scandals and a sluggish economy, and throwing the contest open to contenders from both the left and right.

Early results from gubernatorial races in 12 of Mexico's 31 states on Monday showed Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, heading for defeat in seven of them, a result far worse than most polls had forecast.

Projected losses included two oil-rich strongholds in the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz and neighboring Tamaulipas, both of which have been plagued by gang violence for years, as well as Quintana Roo, home to Mexico's top tourist destination Cancun. All three have been run by the PRI for over eight decades.

The opposition center-right National Action Party (PAN) was poised to be the main beneficiary, taking the lead in seven states, three of them in alliance with the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

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