Mexico enters the era of politics

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Mexico's Jul 6, 1997, elections resulted in a shift of power away from the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Leftist Cuauhtemoc Cardenas won the Mexico City mayoral race and the PRI may lose control of the lower house of Congress. This signals a major change for Mexico.

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Searching for a livelier role

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Mexico's political parties are struggling with the challenge of finding new roles within an emerging democracy. The task is particularly difficult for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which lost power in Dec 2000, after ruling for 71 years.

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Mexico's once-ruling party faces the shock of opposition

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The impact on the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary party of losing the Jul 2000 presidential election is examined in detail.

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