Todays Politics of the Mexican Government

A detailed Summary of Todays Politics of the Mexican Government

Even with the National Action Party's 61-year existence it was only able to gain the support required to win an election this past year (lcweb2, frd_7olY). The party had always, with the exception of two elections, been able to win second place to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. It took the character of Vicente Fox to win the popular vote and remove the long ruling PRI. Fox wasn't the only force helping to end the 71 year one party rule, the National Democratic Institute, which oversees the validity of elections in democratically struggling countries, watched carefully to see that the PRI did not continue its traditional election tampering. With the election of Fox, the Mexican people are expecting the new party to do what the former government couldn't. If Fox fails it could lead the country away from the path to democracy.

Vicente Fox is a 58-year-old divorced father of four adopted children who had spent most of his adult life rising through the political ranks and fighting the PRI the whole way. He was not unaccustomed to fighting his way to success after his career with Mexico's Coca-Cola Corporation. He began at Coke as a route supervisor and within 10 years became the company's youngest president at age 3

2. Entering politics at 1987 he won a federal Congressman's seat just a year later. In the same year he began his protest of fraud in the presidential elections by taping the burning of electoral ballots. He lost his bid for the governor of his home state allegedly due to the PRI's election tampering but this only further set his mind on the presidency. Rather than depend on the support of those in the National Action Party, Fox established the "Friends of Fox" to raise the money and the support for his presidential run (ft, spc886).

"The election was a victory of democracy insofar as voting was free and a high percentage of the population exercised that right." Now Fox needs to work with the rest of the Mexican government to see that the transition leads to the changes promised, else Mexico will most probably slide back to his historically authoritarian past. Mexican's voted for change, not for Fox so his ability to make changes will be what he will be judged by. Fox has many problems to deal with, poverty , health, education and corruption are just a few. If Fox was right when he proclaimed that "A change of government is the best antidote to corruption which has reached intolerable levels" then he has already made a major stride in the right direction. Ending or even curbing corruption will not be enough to keep the PRI from resurging back into the presidency, there are 40 million poor people in

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Category: Politics