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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. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPredictable, I suppose. That doesn't make it right, of course...
Sep 01st, 2012 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0true :( , but then PRD didn´t present evidence correctly or at least at the standars court required of them and they knew it, my hope is that now PRD, PAN and even PRI will be presured into cooperating to pass reforms, there will be some sort of equilibrium, of course public pressure can´t hurt if its well focused into making official and well founded solicitations.
Sep 02nd, 2012 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also, 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.
Will this make a difference to the ordinary Mexican?? I think not!!
Sep 02nd, 2012 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 aussie
Sep 02nd, 2012 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he, 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.
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Sep 03rd, 2012 - 04:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of 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.
A sociadade Civil do México quere uma porta aberda para os seus direitos essenciais o Sir. Penã Nieto devem presseguir as suas reformas para que não haja exploração e empobrecimento da população é construir um futuro melhor para o México
Sep 03rd, 2012 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Will this new administration actually help Mexico? Mexico has been such a poor, under educated “nothing” country for such a long, long, long time. Many of their citizens go to the USA to try to find a decent life, which so far Mexico's administrations have failed to provide for their people. Lets hope the practically impossible can some day come about.
Sep 06th, 2012 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 05 Jose
Sep 06th, 2012 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do 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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