Mexico's Ruling PRI Fights for a Comeback in Baja California Sandra Dibble - U-T San Diego
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Fernando Castro Trenti, gubernatorial candidate in Baja California for Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at a meeting in Tijuana Saturday. The candidate was flanked by Manlio Fabio Beltrones, left the party's coordinator in the federal Chamber of Deputies, and Cesar Camacho, right, the PRI's national president. (PRI)

TIJUANA — Striving to recapture Baja California, the national leadership of Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) gathered in Tijuana on Saturday in a dramatic show of political muscle three weeks before the state’s gubernatorial election.

The gathering at a hotel in the city’s Río Zone brought together 10 PRI governors and the party’s leaders in the Senate and federal Chamber of Deputies for a meeting of the PRI’s Permanent Political Commission.

The main purpose was to endorse Fernando Castro Trenti, gubernatorial candidate for a PRI-led coalition, and other candidates in the state’s July 7 elections.

“We came to make Baja California our cause,” said César Camacho, the PRI’s national president. “The PRI didn’t come to settle, it came to win.”

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