Ruling PRI Party Probes Governors of Chihuahua and Quintana Roo for Graft Dave Graham - Reuters
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Governors Cesar Duarte from Chihuahua (L) and Roberto Borge from Quintana Roo (Noticias Quintana Roo)

Eager to clean up its image before the 2018 presidential election, Mexico's ruling party is weighing whether to discipline two former state governors after expelling another wanted on corruption charges.

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Senator Arturo Zamora said on Wednesday that the party's justice committee was reviewing whether to act against former governors Roberto Borge from Quintana Roo and Cesar Duarte in Chihuahua, whom the opposition have accused of fraud and corruption.

The governors deny any wrongdoing.

"Proceedings have been initiated, and we don't know what the result of these two cases will be," Zamora said in a radio interview, noting the party was still gathering evidence.

Battered by allegations of graft, misuse of public funds and conflict-of-interest scandals, President Enrique Pena Nieto's PRI has vowed to go after corrupt officials to counter entrenched public skepticism.

On Tuesday, the PRI expelled outgoing Veracruz governor Javier Duarte, who has been missing since the attorney general's office said a week ago it was seeking his arrest on suspicion of involvement in organized crime and money laundering.

Both Borge and Duarte's terms in office ended in the months after the PRI lost control of their states in a string of regional election defeats in June.

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