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Mexican ruling party to win narrowly in key election

Monday, June 5, 2017


The candidate from Mexico’s governing party appeared to be heading toward an extremely narrow victory in the fiercely fought election for governor of the country’s most populous state, electoral officials said late Sunday, citing early official returns.

But a top opposition leader quickly rejected the announcement and vowed to prove that his party’s handpicked candidate had beaten the candidate of the governing party, the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the P.R.I.

Source: New York Times