Wednesday, March 28, 2012

PRI Rebound

The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) candidate has a lead in the polls ahead of Mexico's presidential election in July. The PRI ran Mexico for 70 years until the PAN (National Action Party) took over about 12 years ago. See the Reuters article at Yahoo News.

We shall see whether Mexico has evolved politically to the point where leadership of the country can peacefully pass from one party to another, back and forth, as it does in the U.S. I'd like to believe they have reached that point, but it's too early to be certain. The transition from PRI to PAN was peaceful.

One interesting feature of the 2012 presidential race is that the PAN has nominated a woman, Josefina Vazquez Mota. That is an interesting tactic in a country noted for machismo.