Politics: Initial Preview of 2016 Elections

MEXICO - Report 21 Oct 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Gubernatorial elections will be held next year in 12 states: nine are currently controlled by the PRI while the governors in the remaining three were elected as part of an alliance between the PAN and the PRD. These contests will occur in a national political context strikingly different from that of the 2015 federal midterms that were held this past June, and will have a major bearing on the 2018 presidential contest. They will also constitute an initial test for the new leaderships of the three major parties, all of which have internal problems of their own that they mus...

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