Mexico’s PRI May Gain in Vote, With Eye on Presidency
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Mexico’s largest opposition party, out of power for a decade, may boost its chances of taking back the presidency in elections for 12 governorships today after the bloodiest campaign season since 1994.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for 71 years until 2000, may win at least 10 governor races and could win them all, said Roy Campos, head of Mexico City-based polling group Consulta Mitofsky. Victories in every state would put the party known as the PRI at the helm of 22 of Mexico’s 31 states, up from 19 now.