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Article: Scent of victory: Mexico. (National Action Party wins governor's election in Baja California, and could become a credible opposition party to the Party of Institutional Revolution)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 12, 1995
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THE ruling party badly wanted to win the governor's race in Baja California last weekend. It did not. The opposition National Action Party (PAN), which had won the governorship in 1989, retained it by a comfortable margin.
Local leaders of the Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI) never forgave the man who headed the national party in 1989 for permitting their earlier humiliation: it was the first governorship that the PRI had ever lost and it set the precedent for further opposition victories. That man was Luis Donaldo Colosio, later to become the PRI's candidate for the nation's presidency--and to be murdered in Baja California during a political visit early last ...