Mexican General Election of 2000
Vicente Fox ended the PRI's 71-year rule with a 42.5 percent plurality.
Overview
On July 2, 2000, Vicente Fox of the National Action Party defeated the Institutional Revolutionary Party's Francisco Labastida 42.5 to 36.1, ending the world's longest-ruling party regime's 71-year hold on the presidency. Fox, a former Coca-Cola executive with cowboy boots, ran as change and the PRI's internal opening under Zedillo made defeat possible. The peaceful alternation, certified cleanly, marked Mexico's democratic consolidation and the PRI's decline, though the divided congress previewed the reform gridlocks that followed.
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