Historic Defeat for Mexico’s Former Ruling Party

In Mexico, the formerly hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in Spanish) lost its grip on power in the State of Mexico this week after having governed there for more than 90 years. Voters chose Delfina Gómez, a candidate from Mexico’s current ruling party at the federal level, who will become the first woman to lead the most populated state in the country and one of the engines of the national economy. In other state elections, PRI candidate Manuel Jiménez swept the governorship of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. What do these contrasting results mean? Citlali Saenz reports from Mexico City.

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