All Eyes on Sunday's Baja California Governor Race, Where Vote Expected to Be Close Jill Replogle - KMPS.org
go to original July 4, 2013

Supporters of Enrique Peña Nieto at a campaign event in downtown Tijuana. (Jill Replogle/)

The fight over the governor’s seat is being closely watched in Mexico because of the position’s historical and political significance in the country’s democratic evolution.

The conservative National Action Party, or PAN, has ruled Baja California since 1989 when Ernesto Ruffo Appel (now a senator) became the first state governor in the country to win against a candidate of the dynastic Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.

The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 years following the country’s 1910 revolution. Last year, the party took back the presidency from the PAN after a 12 years hiatus. (Enrique Peña Nieto was sworn in on Dec. 1, 2012.)

In Baja California, the latest independent poll shows PAN gubernatorial candidate Francisco Vega de Lamadrid with an eight point lead over his main rival Fernando Castro Trenti of the PRI. But the vote is expected to be close.

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