Ruling PRI Party Narrowly Fends Off Leftist in Major State of Mexico Election Noe Torres - The Wire
go to original June 5, 2017

Governor candidate Alfredo del Mazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) delivers a message to the media during the election day for governor for the state of Mexico in Toluca. (Reuters/Carlos Jasso)

Mexico‘s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) likely won a key state election on Sunday by a slim margin, according to an official preliminary projection of results that was quickly challenged by the leftist party seen in second place.

An early count from the State of Mexico‘s electoral institute projected PRI candidate Alfredo del Mazo as winning between 32.75- 33.59% of the vote.

The candidate of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) was seen taking between 30.73-31.53%.

If the forecast is correct it will have been a close call for President Enrique Pena Nieto’s PRI, which has governed the state for nearly nine decades, and will not end the aspirations of Lopez Obrador, a veteran leftist who has led early opinion polls for the July 2018 presidential race.

Lopez Obrador said the rapid count did not “correspond with reality” and that he did not accept it.

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