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Tabasco dispute has implications in looming fight for control of PRI.(Institutional Revolutionary Party; controversy over the election in Mexico's state of Tabasco)(Brief Article)
America's Insider, January, 2001
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MEXICO CITY--The Dec. 29 decision by Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal to annul the Oct. 15 Tabasco elections has thrown the state into chaos and may have significant implications in the looming fight for control of the Mexico's largest political party. The ruling--just three days before the new governor was to take office led to fist fights on the floor of the state legislature and led competing factions of legislators to name two different interim governors.
Even before the October elections, there were complaints about the process. The opposition accused the state ...
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