Opposition Tie-Ups Key to Capturing 2018 Mexico Presidency, Says PRD Chief Dave Graham - Reuters
go to original June 9, 2016

Sunday’s Final Results a Test of 2018 Presidential Elections (teleSUR English)

Mexico's main leftist party will weigh tying up with conservative rivals to wrest power in 2018, after their successful alliance handed President Enrique Pena Nieto a beating in state elections, its leader said.

On Sunday, the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, teamed up with the center-right National Action Party (PAN) to inflict one of the worst ever electoral defeats on Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

The 12 contests took place in the most fragmented political landscape in modern Mexican history and PRD Chairman Agustin Basave said in an interview no party would be able to win the next presidential elections without doubling up.

"I don't rule out any potential alliance," he said. "What I rule out is going it alone."

For 71 consecutive years the PRI ruled Mexico via a mix of political patronage, corruption and authoritarianism until it was voted out in 2000. In 2012, the party retook the top job under Pena Nieto and will try to hang onto the post in Mexico's 2018 general election.

While sidelined, the PRI still controlled at least half the 31 federal states, and since returning to power, adversaries say it has exploited its advantage to keep the opposition divided.

...The PRI started Sunday with 9 of the 12 states but ended up with only five. Three of those losses went to PRD-PAN coalitions while PRD leaders also backed the PAN contender in a fourth.

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