Mexico: Local Elections Boost Reform Prospects

摘要

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's economic agenda looked to be on a surer footing after local elections on Sunday yielded results that favor a cross-party pact he forged to push reforms through Congress. In the most closely watched race, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) won a tight contest for governor in its stronghold of Baja California, an outcome that should help defuse tensions between the opposition and Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).