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Article: GOVERNING INSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (PRI) STRUGGLES WITH CALLS FOR INTERNAL DEMOCRACY
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- November 20, 1996
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By John Ross [The author is a free-lance journalist who has written on Mexican political and economic affairs for many years]
Editor's note: Negotiations over political reform among Mexico's major parties broke down in early November, when the three major opposition parties refused to accept the proposal of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for campaign expenditures. The inability of the leaders of the four parties to reach consensus caused the proposed political reforms to automatically be forwarded to the Chamber of Deputies, which is dominated by the PRI (see SourceMex, 11/06/96). In the legislature, PRI members proceeded to dismantle many of ...