Significance: The PRI is intent on delivering the message to voters, heading towards the general election in 2018, that it is tough on corruption and that it will no longer tolerate it as in the past. The PRI appears to have managed to cling on to both the governorships of the Estado de México (Edomex), the most populous state in the country and its main stronghold, and Coahuila, which held concurrent elections on 4 June. But the party saw massive majorities evaporate in both states, neither of which have experienced alternation of power before, and clung on by the bare minimum. Indeed, the elections were so close that both the radical left-wing opposition Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party, in Edomex, and the right-wing opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) party, in Coahuila, are demanding a full recount. One of the principal reasons for the savaging of the PRI’s majorities has been the public perception of corruption and the demand for an end to impunity for official wrongdoing. The PRI’s expulsion of Borge, whose extradition from Panama is being sought, should be seen through this prism.
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