All polls tell us that Enrique Peña Nieto, the telegenic 45-year-old candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), will win this Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico. His advantage (at 44 per cent, to 28 per cent for Andres Manuel López Obrador, of the PRD, and 25 per cent for Josefina Vásquez Mota, of the ruling PAN), seems solid enough to assume we shall witness a return of the PRI to power in Los Pinos, Mexico’s presidential compound. The conventional wisdom is that this is somehow regrettable.
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