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Article: GOVERNING PARTY SUFFERS STUNNING DEFEAT IN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS IN BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR STATE.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- February 10, 1999
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In gubernatorial elections Feb. 7, the governing Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) suffered a stunning defeat in the northern state of Baja California Sur, but managed a narrow victory in Guerrero state in southwestern Mexico. In the Baja California Sur race, Leonel Cota Montano, who recently left the PRI in a dispute with the party's state leadership, won the election representing a coalition formed by the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD) and the Partido del Trabajo (PT). Cota Montano received almost 55% of the vote, compared with 36% for Antonio Manriquez Guluarte of the PRI and about 9% for other parties. Cota Montano's convincing victory was ...
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