MEXICO CITY: PR played a pivotal role last month in helping Francisco Labastida win Mexico’s first-ever major-party presidential primary.

MEXICO CITY: PR played a pivotal role last month in helping

Francisco Labastida win Mexico’s first-ever major-party presidential

primary.



Labastida, an economist and member of current president Ernesto

Zedillo’s cabinet, hails from Mexico’s ruling party, the Institutional

Revolutionary Party (PRI). In July’s presidential election, he will be

pitted against Vicente Fox of the conservative National Action Party and

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the liberal Democratic Revolution Party.



Pollster Stan Greenberg, who advised Labastida ...