Despite being pushed desperately close in gubernatorial elections held on 4 June, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)
retained its stranglehold on both Mexico’s most populous state, Estado de Mexico (Edomex), and the northern state of Coahuila, neither of which have experienced alternation of power before. The national electoral institute (INE) took a full week to release the final results which saw opposition parties wipe out the large majorities the PRI had obtained in the previous elections in both states but narrowly fail to muster sufficient votes to win.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1382 words.
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