++ Germán Martínez resigned as PAN national leader following Sunday’s disastrous election results for the ruling party. PRI deputy Emilio Gamboa said his party’s triumph in the polls constituted a great responsibility towards citizens who backed the PRI. And PRD chief Jesús Ortega, said he would not quit despite poor results for the party.
++ The PRI nabbed five out of six governor’s posts that were up for election on Sunday… It held on to Colima, Campeche and Nuevo León and managed to wrest Querétaro and San Luis Potosí from the PAN.
++ And in a tight race for governor in Sonora, State Electoral Council tallies had PAN ahead of PRI... PRI governor Eduardo Bours acknowledged that the ABC day care center tragedy affected the way citizens in Sonora cast their votes.
++ The PRI also swept the Chamber of Deputies, recapturing the majority from the PAN and the PRD returned to third place in number of seats.
++ According to official returns IFE confirmed that PRI garnered 36.83 per cent of votes, PAN 27.96 percent, PRD 12.23 percent, the Green Ecologist Party, 6.72 percent, the Labor Party 3.69 percent, Convergencia 2.5 percent, New Alliance 3.41 percent and the Social Democratic party only received 1.03 percent, losing its registry.
++ In Jalisco the PRI won Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tlaquepaque and Tonalá municipalities.
++ And in the State of Mexico, the PRI took Ecatepec, Nezahualcóyotl, Valle de Chalco, Texcoco, Chalco, Amecameca and Ixtapaluca, formerly ruled by the PRD.
It also was able to triumph in Naucalpan, Toluca, Tlalnepantla, Atizapán and Cuautitlán Izcalli that were previously in PAN hands.
++ Meanwhile in the Federal District, the PRD managed to hold on to 12 boroughs while PAN continued in power in Benito Juárez and Miguel Hidalgo and won Cuajimalpa. The PT won in Iztapalapa.
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