Mexico’s Ruling Party Expands Power With Local Election Wins
- Morena projected to win four of six governor races on Sunday
- PRI, which long ruled Mexico, to be left with diminished role
A poster promoting Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Ixtapaluca, Mexico State.
Photographer: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images
Mexico’s ruling Morena party won four of six states it didn’t already control in local elections on Sunday, consolidating President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s political power further beyond his traditional strongholds in the south of the country.
Morena and allied parties were projected to win the states of Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas, the latter of which is located in the country’s northeast bordering Texas, according to rapid count results posted by Mexico’s electoral institute on Twitter. A coalition of opposition parties including the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, and the PRI, which ruled Mexico for most of last century, won the states of Durango and Aguascalientes.