Mexican Political Regimes

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 referred to Mexico's political system as "the perfect dictatorship"(Fuser, 1995, p. 15). And a dictatorship it has been. The PRI, since its inception in 1929 (under a different name) has obeyed one rule: to resolve confl

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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 Mexico more responsive to the public and more mindful of itself. The existence of competing parties that reside in all branch
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