PRI Leadership Vote Too Close to Call
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Two contenders to lead Mexico’s biggest political party back to the presidency appeared nearly tied in an election to pick a new chief.
Figures released Monday afternoon by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, showed Beatriz Paredes, leader of the lower house of Congress, ahead of former Tabasco state Gov. Roberto Madrazo by barely 2,600 votes, with 75.7% of ballots counted. Madrazo declared earlier that he had won.
The winner of Sunday’s vote is expected to help bring the PRI back from its defeat in the 2000 elections, when its candidate lost the presidency for the first time in 71 years. A final tally is expected by today.
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