Mexico’s Former Ruling Party Leads Vote
Mexico’s former ruling party Sunday had a strong lead in northern Coahuila state’s gubernatorial race, the last state election before next summer’s presidential poll.
With nearly 20 percent of the vote counted late Sunday, Humberto Moreira had 57 percent, compared to 35 percent for Jorge Zermeno, a 56-year-old lawyer and senator running with President Vicente Fox’s National Action Party.
A victory by Moreira would serve as another boost for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controlled Mexico’s presidency from 1929 until losing to Fox in 2000.
The PRI has already shown resilience this year, capturing four of the six gubernatorial elections before Sunday, and it has held power in Coahuila since its inception in 1929.
A win by Moreira in this northern industrial state does not guarantee the PRI’s return to the presidency: Its two potential presidential candidates trail former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party in most national presidential polls.
Fox is barred by law from seeking a second, six-year term, and his party’s likely candidates are also trailing as the presidential campaign heats up.
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