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Luis Hector Alvarez was elected president of Mexico’s largest opposition party. Alvarez, 67, a former mayor of Chihuahua, succeeds Pablo Emilio Madero as head of the National Action Party, a conservative group that in recent years has mounted strong challenges in state elections to the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Madero had held three consecutive one-year terms as party president. Alvarez said he will work to “radicalize” the party’s efforts but that he will not seek violent confrontation.
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