Word: zedillo
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Because of, or in spite of that, the voters stuck with the P.R.I. "He looked like somebody clean," said Isidoro Pete Gonzalez, a former opposition voter in Tijuana. "He's not contaminated yet." Said Zedillo the next day: "We are a party plainly capable of being competitive." In an interview with TIME, he noted, "The party has to be explicit about its rules of internal democracy," which might include primaries or conventions to select candidates rather than having the bosses do the picking...
...large measure a referendum on the P.R.I.'s new claims to political trustworthiness and the economic policies put in place by outgoing President Carlos Salinas de Gortari -- most notably the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect Jan. 1. Many experts had been predicting that Zedillo, the unassuming technocrat plucked from obscurity after the party's first choice was assassinated in March, would win with less than half the votes and that the restive electorate would send large numbers of opposition members to Congress. The voters disproved those forecasts and gave the P.R.I. sizable majorities in both...
...choosing Zedillo, Mexicans voted for stability. They had been badly frightened by a year of upheaval that began with the armed rebellion in Chiapas led by angry peasants and included political assassination and kidnappings of wealthy businessmen. Such fears helped the party in power, which offered security and familiarity even to the multitudes who have yet to share the fruits of economic reform. Federico Reyes Heroles, director of the magazine Este Pais, thinks that the split of just over half the votes for Zedillo and slightly less than half for the opposition "is a faithful picture of what the country...
...shoulders. "I support stability and democracy and tranquillity," he said. "So it's not too hard to guess who I voted for." Jorge Alaniz, a bank employee in Mexico City, was thinking about voting for the P.A.N. but stuck with the ruling party. "I thought Zedillo was a safe pair of hands," he said. "I just hope he can make the economy take off so my kids can have a good future." When Zedillo assumes office on Dec. 1, the country expects continuity from him, not dramatic new policies. Salinas has already pulled Mexico back from economic catastrophe with free...
...Zedillo will have to keep a grip on inflation but also push for economic growth. He will have to find ways to get more purchasing power to consumers, spreading the country's rising prosperity more evenly. If he cannot do it, the vote next time could produce real change: a President who is not from the P.R.I...