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President-elect Ernesto Zedillo may have more of a mandate than many expected. New vote counts showed he captured a 50.08 percent majority in what is believed to be a fairly clean election. His dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also was leading in a whopping 278 of 300 congressional races and in virtually all 64 Senate races. Why did Mexicans stick with the PRI, in their first chance to dump it in 65 years? Consider the uprising of the Zapatista rebels in January, the assassination of the PRI's first candidate in March, and two high-profile kidnappings...
...interview with TIME's Lopez shortly after he declared victory, Zedillo said he planned to include former opposition figures in his government for the first time in Mexican history -- and over objections from members of his own party. "(This would be) a personal matter and my own decision, which would not be subject to negotiation with other parties," he said. Lopez says Zedillo's prospective beau geste isn't politically necessary: "I think he showed great restraint. He could be gloating...
Eight months after they launched a bloody uprising against Mexico's ruling government, members of the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army and thousands of sympathizers warned that they will launch a campaign of "civil resistance" if Sunday's presidential elections are perceived to be fraudulent. Polls showed Ernesto Zedillo of the incumbent Institutional Revolutionary Party with a 27-point lead over his rivals...
Mexico's paradoxically named Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has weathered the toughest election in its 65-year rule -- i.e., the cleanest and most competitive vote in the country's history. By this evening, ballot counters said PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo had a comfortable lead over rival Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, of the conservative National Action Party. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, trailed both. A hopeful sign: more than 70 percent of those registered voted, far above the expected 50 percent...
Despite scattered cries of fraud, many Mexicans hope Sunday's presidential vote will live up to its promise to be the first truly contested election they have ever known. Nonetheless, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Laura Lopez reports, polls indicate most Mexicans will back Ernesto Zedillo, candidate of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has ruled the country since 1929. One reason for Zedillo's 20-point lead: Lopez says rival National Action Party candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, once the front-runner, miscalculated by taking a campaign break in June. Another: "They're indicating that they still aren't ready...