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PRI says it will respect election reforms
The PRI is doing its best to stem the tide, portraying itself as progressive and promising fair elections.
President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who is half-way through the one six-year term the law allows him, worked to champion newly enacted election reform, and is calling for cooperation with opposition parties.
"The upcoming elections will demonstrate legality, transparency and equality," Interior Minister Emilio Chuayffet, a powerful member of Zedillo's cabinet, told legislators as the election approached.
Legally, it has to be that way. Last year's hard-won reform law ended the PRI's role as election overseer. The independent Federal Electoral Institute is organizing and supervising the ballot, including vote counting.
Some opposition candidates give the president credit, but the PRI's old guard is circling the wagons. Some accuse Zedillo -- a serious and practical man who rose to party prominence as an economist -- of being weak in compromising.
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