The charismatic young governor Enrique Peña Nieto, who will becomeMexico's
next president, pledged that his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had
changed and would never revert to the patronage and repression that kept it in
office for most of the 20th century.
"We
are a new generation. There is no return to the past," the 45-year-old
told a cheering crowd on Sunday night as government exit polls projected him to
win 38 per cent of the vote. "Mexicans have given our party another chance.
We are going to honour it with results."
While
the election's final results will not be available for several days, Mr Peña
Nieto claimed victory as surveys showed him defeating his closest rival, the
Left's Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by around seven points.
Mr
López Obrador last night refused to concede the election, saying he would await
official figures and insisted: "The last word has not been spoken
yet".
Analysts
however said it was unlikely he would repeat the mass protests he led in 2006
after losing the presidential race by less than one per cent.
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