The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) again claimed victory in national elections this month in Mexico.
PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo was estimated to have captured about 48% of the vote. He will succeed Carlos Salinas de Gortari as president for the next six years. The PRI has ruled Mexico for 65 years.
The leader of the third-place Party of the Democratic Revolution, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, claimed electoral fraud.
Mexican stocks, bonds and the peso soared following announcement of the election results.
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