PAN Accepts Misconduct During Mexican Elections Prensa Latina
go to original July 10, 2012

The National Action Party (PAN) will present challenges to Mexico's election authority after admitting that serious offenses were committed in the July 1 election, making it unfair and hardly exemplary, the press reported today.

The PAN, which currently holds power, refused an alliance with the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which had requested that the PAN leadership work jointly with it to show the irregularities in the electoral process.

In a private meeting that lasted over six hours, the PAN noted that the cases it will try to air include overshooting the fixed cap on campaign spending, parallel financing mechanisms and direct vote-buying, said the Milenio newspaper.

PAN also proposed postponing discussion to expel former President Vicente Fox from party ranks due to his support for the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Enrique Peña Nieto, considering that it was more important to analyze the causes of the defeat that led the party to lose the presidency and win seats in Congress.

PAN's president, Gustavo Madero, announced on Monday night at the end of the analysis that his organization recognizes that these elections were well done. But he affirmed there is evidence of misconduct which requires an investigation to its conclusion.

However, the PAN rejected the idea of ignoring the results of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) on election day, in which the PRI and Green Ecologist (PVEM) candidate, Peña Nieto, won 38.21 percent of the vote.

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