Mexico Institute in the News: Mexican Vote Fight Undercuts New Leader
Fraud Allegations by Losing Candidate Prompts President Elect Peña Nieto to Consider Delaying Economic Overhaul Plan. Mexico Institute's Eric Olson comments.
The Wall Street Journal, 07/12/2012
MEXICO CITY—A growing feud over alleged vote-buying is putting Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto on the defensive, threatening his economic revamp agenda, and raising doubts among many Mexicans that the young leader represents a new version of the country's former autocratic ruling party.
"The problem is this falls into the conventional wisdom among Mexicans—it's not a huge leap for them to accept that there was manipulation," said Eric Olson of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington think tank.
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