Peña Nieto confirmed as president-elect; takes office December first
Mexico's electoral tribunal officially named Enrique Peña Nieto as president-elect on Friday, ending a drawn-out dispute over the results of the July election.
The 46-year-old former State of Mexico governor will be sworn in on December first and return the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power after 12 years in opposition.
The electoral tribunal on Thursday threw out a bid by populist runner-up Andrés Manuel López Obrador to annul the vote result after he accused the PRI of vote buying and money laundering.
The declaration clears the way for Peña Nieto to forge deals in Congress over economic reforms needed to revitalize growth in Latin America's second-largest economy.
With Peña Nieto returns (hopefully) a refurbished and rejuvenated PRI, which had dominated Mexican politics, as an almost only party system, for over seven decades until defeated in 2000 by Vicente Fox and the conservative pro-business PAN.
Six years later PAN repeated with Felipe Calderón with a minimum difference, and at the time runner up Lopez Obrador also challenged the electoral result and organized protests for months even after Calderon took office.
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Also, this is a generational thing, in 2018 there will be more young adults elegible for voting that dont like PRI in the least and maybe will be more knowing in the way the other partys act, IMO we are in a transitional fase, the different political forces are learning how to interact between each other, and congress space of agreetments and conflicts are a infinitely better space to do that than out of it, and really, most ppl are seeing this, so they will focus more on the differents partys palpable RESULTS than in their name, color or supposed principles, as it should be IMO.
he, not very sure if you mean my response of the article?
either way, we are not really expecting drastic changes in the next few years, we mexicans tend to be overly realistic with shades of positive/negative thinking sometimes, is a very ingrained part of our culture :) . but that doesn´t preclude us to do a difference between ourselves and helping each other getting better, we have experience in that.
And yes, I think the fact that the partys learning to get along is a good thing, if only because it will ease the way for a more efective congress, and if theres more citizenchip participation, we can slowy aproach a more fair administration of power, also, I like that lately goverment has been more accepting of bussiness ppl, profesionals and civil groups to solve things. There is much to do, but at least there is ppl with good ideas that can help us lead the way.
Of course everything makes a difference to the ordinary Mexican. Every failure of achievement of the President and Congress makes a difference in the lives of all mexicans. Peña Nieto will pursue reforms, he will get some, he won`t be able to get all of them certainly, but he and his party will try to change the country, for better or for worse.
What`s good news is that the nay-sayers, the anti-reformist, lost the election once again.
Do you know who will be part of Peña´s new cabinet or if Cartens will still be governor of Bank of Mexico, it would be good if he was, he has made a really good work on keeping debt stable enough for grow, and with the new reforms it should be more easy.
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