Mexico City

PRI could return: The party that ruled Mexico in authoritarian style for 70 years until 2000 is favored to return to power in national elections next week. Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Enrique Peña Nieto is leading in the polls over Josefina Vázquez Mota of the incumbent National Action Party (PAN) and leftist coalition candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Throughout the campaign, Peña Nieto, 45, has taken pains to reassure voters that his party, which dominated 20th-century Mexico in large part through corruption and massive voter fraud, has finally learned to respect democracy. “I am part of a new generation that grew up under democracy,” the former governor of the state of Mexico told thousands of cheering supporters at a rally in the Azteca soccer stadium this week. Nearly 80 million Mexicans are eligible to vote.

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