Left keeps Mexico City in elections

The candidate of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) to become mayor of Mexico City Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa, was reported to have won elections by a large margin, maintaining the Left's power in the capital after general elections on 1 July, El Universal reported on 2 July. Authorities said that with 90 per cent of votes counted on 2 July, the PRD was leading in the capital's 16 districts, Notimex reported.

PRI reported winner in Mexico's elections

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won Mexico's presidential elections on 1 July, regaining the office12 years after it was lost to the National Action Party (PAN), El Universal reported on 2 July. The winning candidate Enrique Peña Nieto promised, speaking after an initial vote count, that he would form a forward-looking government and there would be no "going back to the past" of feared authoritarian practices. He promised there would neither a "truce nor a pact" with organized crime. Peña Nieto thanked the outgoing President Felipe Calderón for his "democratic vocation" and "institutional respect and conduct" in the electoral process, El Universal reported. The leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador was cautious about incipient results, and said his party would wait for the final count, AFP reported on 2 July.