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...most dramatic political upheaval in eight decades. The general election's stunning outcome finally made the country something more than a pseudo democracy with one all-powerful party. In the first ever race for mayor of Mexico City, one of the world's largest and most poverty-ridden capitals, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (P.R.D.) dealt the P.R.I. the worst defeat in its history, while the conservative National Action Party (P.A.N.) captured two key governorships, including the highest office in Nuevo Leon, an industrial state on the U.S. border. Most important, the P.R.I. lost its majority...
Just two years ago, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano was considered a political goner. After he nearly unseated the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in 1988's apparently fraud-smeared presidential election, his star fell so fast that he finished a distant third in the 1994 contest for Los Pinos palace. Despite his illustrious pedigree--he lived at the palace in the 1930s, when his father Lazaro was one of Mexico's most popular Presidents--the more people saw of Cardenas the less they liked him. His ultraleft ideology was a turnoff, and his plodding campaign style made voters ready...
...nowhere near dead. It still governs the lion's share of states, it's still the largest party in Congress, but it no longer looks like the monolithic power it once was." Padgett adds that opposition victories, which include a leftist triumph in Mexico City by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, stand to move Mexico forward. "Ever since the Mexican revolution, Mexico has been a democracy in name only. Now it looks like a genuine democracy could emerge. This is going to mean a much better chance for some genuine modernization in this country in terms of institution- building, openness and a transparence...
There were encouraging signs that a genuine two-party system is beginning to emerge. Six splinter parties did very poorly; so did the leftist P.R.D., led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, which won only 17%. His party seems likely to fracture and fade further. Meanwhile, the center-right, business-oriented National Action Party (P.A.N.) surged from 16% of the electorate in 1988 to almost 27%. % The party looks like a challenger in the making. "For the P.A.N.," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, "the race did not end on Aug. 21. It began...
...everything's copacetic. Runner-up Diego Fernandez de Cevallos of the center-right National Action Party (28 percent) and third-place Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolution Party (16 percent) said they suspected the official vote totals were off because of a shortage of absentee ballots and scattered irregularities. Cardenas, who lost the 1988 election to the P.R.I.'s Carlos Salinas de Gortari, drew at least 20,000 people to a central Mexico City square on Monday to protest an election he called "a colossal fraud." He plans another rally Saturday...