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...waving one of his replacement boxes over his head. He had improvised with cookie cartons; each had a hole cut into the side and covered with a plastic bag to create a makeshift window. The voters nodded, and by day's end they and the country had elected Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon Mexico's next President...
...true test of the elections was not who the winner would be -- Zedillo had been leading in most opinion polls since July -- but whether voters would believe that he had won fairly. During the P.R.I.'s lengthy reign, one of its ! most notorious achievements was its skill at arranging not to lose. But this time the electoral process had been significantly reformed, and more than 80,000 observers were stationed around the country to fend off the fraud that has been the rule so often before. The watchers, both Mexican and foreign, spotted many violations but agreed that they...
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...