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Article: Positions in the PRI.(Institutional Revolutionary Party)
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- Business Mexico
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Winning over the support of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is crucial to President Vicente Fox's reform efforts to Madrazo and party heavyweight Manuel Bartlett are two key figures the Fox will have to convince.
Roberto Madrazo's rise to the helm of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in March 2002 couldn't have come at a more critical moment--the party's ousting from power for the first time ever brought its very existence into question. Madrazo had already waged a bitter campaign against Francisco Labastida to become the PRI's presidential candidate in 2000, and remained popular with the rank-and-file. Partly thanks to Madrazo, the PRI has ...