Despite President Vicente Fox’s hopes for the contrary, Sunday’s national elections failed to instate the National Action Party (PAN) as the majority leader in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies. Instead, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who until Fox’s election as president had maintained rule for over 70 years, remains the majority leader in the Chamber. Although the leftist Mexico Posible party failed to win any seats despite intensive campaigning through liberal candidates, such as Amaranta Gomez, an indigenous Zapotec transvestite “muxe” (homosexual), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) increased its congressional seats by 43.
