The Americas | Mexico

We’re clean

|MEXICO CITY

ALFREDO PHILLIPS sees “absolutely no possibility of fraud” in Mexico's mid-term elections on July 6th. They will be “clean, democratic and plural,” he says. Maybe. But Mr Phillips is a top honcho of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has run Mexico for 70 years by being exactly the opposite, and which—if he is right—may well find the voters have given it reason to wish it had carried on that way. So others remain a bit sceptical.

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