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Vicente Fox's unexpected victory in Mexico's July 2, 2000 presidential elections puts a definitive end to Mexico's one-party regime. Until now the longest ruling party in the world, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or PRI) failed to turn out its core voters in numbers adequate to match the millions of Mexicans who voted for change by supporting Fox in the July balloting (see Table 1). The Fox win means that Mexico has accomplished the rare feat of ending an authoritarian regime by voting it out of office, an event that comes at the end of a process of building an electoral opposition to the former ruling party that stretches back nearly a quarter century. However, while Fox defeated his PRI rival, Francisco Labastida, by a healthy six-point margin--42.5 to 36.1 percent of votes cast--he failed to sweep in a majority of legislators from his Alliance for Change (a coalition of Fox's National Action Party, or PAN, and the Mexican Green Party, or PVEM). Thus Fox faces a Congress in which he will need constantly to build majorities to support his legislative program and in which the threat of a deadlock will loom continually.
 

Fox's victory reflects the new competitiveness in Mexican politics. Once able to expect to gain 70 percent of the votes, the PRI dropped to about half of the ballots in the 1988 and 1994 presidential elections, and to below 40 percent in the 1997 midterm congressional elections. In 1997, though, the PRI's most threatening rival was not Fox's PAN but the Democratic Revolutionary Party (or PRD) of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who won the Mexico City mayor's race that year (Klesner 1997) and who ran as the PRD's presidential candidate in 2000, his third outing as the left's standard bearer. In the 1990s, opposition candidates from both the PAN and the PRD have won the municipal presidencies of most of Mexico's largest cities and many of its provincia

General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2000. Voters went to the polls to elect a new president to serve a single six-year term, replacing President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, who was ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution. The election system ran under plurality voting; 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) for three-year terms and 128 members of the Senate (three per state by first-past-the-post – two first-past-the-post seats are allocated to the party with the largest share of the vote; the remaining seat is given to the first runner-up – and 32 by proportional representation from national party lists) for six-year terms.

The presidential election was won by Vicente Fox of the Alliance for Change, who received 43.4% of the vote, the first time the opposition had won an election since the Mexican Revolution. In the congressional elections the Alliance for Change emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Deputies with 224 of the 500 seats, whilst the Institutional Revolutionary Party remained the largest faction in the Senate with 60 of the 128 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was between 63 and 64% in the elections.

This historically significant election made Fox the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911, as well as the first in 71 years to defeat, with 43 percent of the vote, the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Primary elections

Institutional Revolutionary Party

President Ernesto Zedillo sought to break away from the 71-year-old PRI succession ritual, so the PRI conducted an unprecedented internal process to choose its presidential candidate for the 2000 elections. The president declared, "The so-called dedazo is dead"; dedazo being the term used to refer to the president personally choosin

THE VOTE
Mexico, Voting In New Leader, Begins Political Sea Change
By SAM DILLON
(July 4, 2000) Swept to power by younger, better-educated voters fed up with corruption and one-party rule, President-elect Vicente Fox Quesada began the transition from a republic headed for decades by autocratic presidents to one in which political power suddenly seemed up for grabs.
• News Analysis: A Crowning Defeat: Mexico as the Victor (July 4, 2000)
• Man in the News: The 'Sell Me' Politician the Mexicans Bought (July 4, 2000)
• Strong Feelings of Pride Over Orderly Balloting (July 4, 2000)
• Political Machine Dependent on Power Loses Its Power (July 4, 2000)
• Sudden Bereavement for 'the Dinosaurs' and Their Offspring (July 4, 2000)
• Change in Leadership Opportunity for Greater U.S.-Mexican Cooperation (July 4, 2000)

Challenger in Mexico Wins; Governing Party Concedes
By JULIA PRESTON
(July 3, 2000) Vicente Fox Quesada, the rough-spoken rancher and businessman who galvanized a maverick grass-roots presidential campaign, scored a momentous victory in Mexico's presidential election, ousting the political party that has ruled for 71 years.
• An Anxious Vigil in Mexico's

President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fox and the second or maternal family name is Quesada.

Vicente Fox Quesada (Latin American Spanish:[biˈsenteˈfokskeˈsaða]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 43 percent of the vote.

As president, Fox continued the neoliberal economic policies his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the 1980s. The first half of his administration saw a further shift of the federal government to the right, strong relations with the United States and George W. Bush, unsuccessful attempts to introduce a value-added tax to medicines and build an airport in Texcoco, and a diplomatic conflict with Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The murder of human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa in 2001 called into question the Fox administration's commitment to breaking wi