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Mexico: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quits Democratic Revolution Party to start new movement

September 9, 2012 21:19
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"I have separated from the parties that form the Progressive Movement," Lopez Obrador said. "This isn't a rupture, I leave in the best of terms."
March 2, 2012 13:09
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Mexico election: Vazquez Mota closing the gap

The PRI may not have as easy a time as they'd hoped in July's vote.
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Mexican presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota (C) celebrates her victory with her counterparts Santiago Creel (L) and Ernesto Cordero (R) from National Action Party (PAN in Spanish) during a press conference in Mexico City on February 5, 2012. Mota is the official presidential candidate of the National Action Party. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Mexico's presidential election may not be as close a call as many analysts had predicted. The opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was expected to win by a landslide after President Felipe Calderón's National Action Party (PAN) is tainted by his unsuccessful war on drugs.
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