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critically evaluate the effects of the election held in mexico​

Answer 1

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Mexico's ruling party's reversal in the July 1997 congressional and gubernatorial elections marks a great step forward in a lengthy and not always direct passage toward democracy that stretches back nearly a quarter century. Long regarded as an authoritarian regime because of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI) monopoly on important electoral victories and the capacity of the president to rule in effect as a six-year dictator,(1) Mexicans now have divided government, with major leaders of the opposition controlling the city halls or the state houses of Mexico's largest cities and most modern states. The president can no longer govern without consulting the opposition; indeed, he must negotiate the passage of legislation through the Chamber of Deputies. The president is no longer a virtual dictator, the PRI is no longer a hegemonic party, and the regime is no longer authoritarian.

The movement from a hegemonic party system(2) to a political arena in which three parties take over 90 percent of the votes but none exceeds 40 percent has included a fissure within the PRI which produced the core of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, or PRD), the major party of the center-left, and the slow but steady growth through victories in state and local races of the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, or PAN), the major party of the center-right. Protests against electoral fraud, both nonviolent and violent, and the emergence of two separate guerrilla movements in southern Mexico have pushed the PRI to yield some of the advantages it has long held in the electoral process. Economic crises in the 1980s and again in the mid 1990s

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Answer 2

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The president of mexico is elected for a six-year term by direct election of the population. The candidate who wins a plurality of votes is elected president. No president can serve more than a single term in office, therefore every presidential election in Mexico is a non-incumbent election.