Elections in Mexico
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All who have borne witness to the recent transformation of Mexican politics seem to agree that the election of Vicente Fox- point-man of the National Action Party (PAN)- equates to nothing short of political revolution. The government of Mexico has, for the past 71 years, been controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has employed but one political agenda: to retain power at all costs. Therefore, Mexico has suffered; existing as a one-party, essentially authoritarian state under the transparent guise of federalism. Elections in Mexico, though held every six years, have been consistently rigged -- manipulated by way of ballot stuffing, bribery, coercion, intimidation, even murder. The time for change has come, and the people of Mexico appear to be seizing the day (Krauze, 1999, p. 18). Mexico's governing body, fashioned in the style of federalism, has a President as well as a Congress, which is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies. Functioning at the State level, Mexico holds local elections. Today, with the emergence of Vicente Fox and the PAN, true opposition has triumphed in Mexico for the first time in the better part of a century, and thus the people of Mexico may finally have an opportunity to enjoy the federalist system that has heretofore been no more than a ruse (Business Week, 2000, p. 38; Krauze, 1999, p. 18). Mexico has never been a true democracy. On the contrary, men such as Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa have r
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government is certainly changing at a fast clip. The PAN, though a victor with Fox in the presidency, has not secured a working majority in either house of Congress. Therefore, much like in the United States, the party in control of the Executive branch will experience a degree of conflict with the Legislative branch. Obviously, this will present an interesting series of challenges to a government that is accustomed to authoritarian rule.
And yet Mexico has an added element worth considering that distinguishes it from the US style of Federalism; third party opposition. Mexico's PDR is by no means an ineffectual body. On the contrary, it will be a legitimate force in determining the path Mexico's new government. In this regard, Mexico has a mixed-party system, which will naturally make the achievement of a working majority more difficult. Of course, party gridlock is the risk in any federalist system that does not allow one minority faction to govern disproportionately.
However, most significant to Mexico's new federal government and its multi-party system is the emergence of a true balance of power. Even with Fox controlling the presidency, a split Congress and a mixed batch of local officials will make government in
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