PRI PRIMARIES?In Mexico, Roberto Madrazo Roberto Madrazo Pintado (born July 30, 1952) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) in the 2006 Mexican presidential election. , the 47-year-old governor of southeastern Tabasco state, is challenging former Interior Minister Francisco Labastida as the presidential nominee of the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ). With a primary open to all voters scheduled for Nov. 7, a recent Louis Harris poll shows Madrazo at least seven percentage points ahead of Labastida. Madrazo apparently has climbed to the top of opinion polls by portraying himself as an outsider, blasting the market-oriented policies of past governments that condemned millions to poverty. "What Mexico wants is not populism populism Political program or movement that champions the common person, usually by favourable contrast with an elite. Populism usually combines elements of the left and right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established , not neoliberalism ne·o·lib·er·al·ism n. A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth. ne ," he says. "It wants a market economy with a human face." Mexico's presidential elections are slated for July 2000. Stay tuned. |
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