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Apathetic Voters Seem Likely to Prolong Mexican Stalemate

Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Tim Weiner
QUOTE: The PRI still holds a plurality in the Senate and the lower House of Congress, and it has stymied Mr. Fox's proposals for changing Mexico at almost every turn....Mexico has the world's toughest term limits: no one at the federal level can be re-elected, not members of Congress, senators or presidents.

ABSTRACT: Disillusioned by ruling party’s governing record, a half of Mexico’s sixty one million voters are expected to stay away from next week’s parliamentary election. The apathy is attributed to President Vicente Fox’ inability to deliver on the promises of wide-ranging political and economic reforms, made after becoming the nation’s first opposition leader to win the presidency in seventy years. With economic growth slowing, millions of Mexico’s poor have lost their faith in Fox’ ability to end poverty, while members of country’s small middle class accuse him of lacking a vision to revitalize the ailing economy
--- oleg yatskar

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