The Mexican electorate has voted to bring back the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after twelve years of government by PAN.

 

In elections held July 1, Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI’s candidate garnered 39.19% of the popular vote. Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador of the PRD party was second with 32.40% of the vote, followed by Josefina Vazquez Mota of the PAN party with 26.06% of the vote.   Her PAN party had ruled Mexico for two, six-year periods starting in 2000, prior to that the PRI had ruled Mexico for seventy years.  While the votes have all been counted, it could take another two months before the process is complete and the victory of Peña Nieto is ratified.