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Mexico held a general election on Sunday, July 2, 2000. At stake were the Presidency of the Republic, all 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and all 128 members of the Senate. Several local elections (state governorships, etc.) were also held on the same day. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com MJ Rosenberg Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:04:08 GM "Since the term limits were imposed by constitutional amendment in 1932, . Mexico's. state-party political culture has relied on the weakness such limits create. The . Mexican. Congress is considered no match for a powerful president who is his party's most powerful . ... Even a moderately endowed primary challenger could smoke an incumbent if we had turnout numbers in the same percentages as we see for presidential . general elections. . Even those numbers are truly pathetic. ...  jvlbiweekly.blogspot.com James van Luik Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:41:00 GM As in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America also witnessed the rise of mass right-wing movements in opposition to the center-left and populist regimes in . Mexico. , Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and elsewhere a recurrent phenomenon overlooked by most students . ... Venezuela: Major popular revolts in 1989 and 1992 culminated in the . election. of Hugo Chavez in 1999. Chavez proceeded to encourage mass popular mobilizations in support of referendums for constitutional reform. ...  tengaged.com pablito Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:18:26 GM For elective offices at all levels, state-administered primary . elections. choose the major party nominees for subsequent . general elections. . Since the . general election. of 1856, the major parties have been the Democratic Party, founded in 1824 . ... The 45.4 million Americans of Hispanic descent are identified as sharing a distinct "ethnicity" by the Census Bureau; 64% of Hispanic Americans are of . Mexican. descent.[126] Between . 2000. and 2007, the country's Hispanic population ... From Google Blog Search: "Mexican general election, 2000" |
