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Pluralistic madness: elections bring trouble for PAN, divided Congress for nation.(National Action Party)

Business Mexico, August, 2003 by O'Boyle, Michael

Carlos Medina Plascencia, director of the National Action Party's (PAN) 2003 campaign, ran onto the stage giving high fives to the young emcees of the rally, triumphantly raising his hands before the roar of some 10,000 flag wavers.

It was Wednesday night, July 2, and the PAN leadership gathered in the bullfighting arena off the gridlocked Periferico highway in one of the capital's wealthy southern neighborhoods. It was the official close to the party's national campaign before elections the following Sunday. And it was the third anniversary of President Fox's historic victory that booted the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, out of Los Pinos.

Speaking after the party's director of women's issues and before a group of singing...

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