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Vicente Fox Wins Presidency — End of PRI Hegemony
Vicente Fox Quesada of PAN won Mexico's presidency with 42.5% against PRI's Francisco Labastida (36.1%) and PRD's Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (17%). After 71 years of uninterrupted PRI rule, Ernesto Zedillo accepted the result and delivered power peacefully. Fox's victory — carried by a coalition 'Alianza por el Cambio' — was certified by the IFE in the most transparent election in Mexican history to that point. Zedillo called Fox immediately to congratulate him.
Sources
- T1 IFE official presidential results, July 2000 Official
- T2 New York Times, July 3, 2000 Major
- T3 Jorge Domínguez & Chappell Lawson, Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election, Stanford Institutional