Mexico’s Top Party Leads in Key State Vote
This country’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared headed for an easy victory in Sunday’s gubernatorial elections in Mexico State, the country’s most populous.
PRI officials had been hoping for a decisive and untainted win in this state of 11 million bordering on Mexico City as a show of strength following an unprecedented challenge by party dissidents to the PRI hierarchy.
While official results will not be announced until next Sunday, state electoral commission officials said early voting indicated that PRI candidate Mario Ramon Beteta, former director of the state oil monopoly Pemex, was coasting to victory.
“Everything indicates the PRI will win,” said a spokesman for the state electoral commission here. “I don’t think we will see any surprises.”
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