Pena Nieto faces tough times ahead

Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto meets with the foreign press in Mexico City July 2, 2012.

Braced for a batle: Mexico's Presidential election victor Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Enrique Pena Nieto has won Mexico’s 2012 presidential election, putting the formerly-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) back in power for the first time in more than a decade.

Pena Nieto’s victory, which came with a lower-than-expected margin, follows an election campaign in which he promised that an administration he leads would advance energy and structural ­reform and tackle drug-fuelled violence.

Pena Nieto won against rivals, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate and former Mexican city mayor, and Josefina Vazquez Mota from the ruling Nation Action Party (PAN).

Despite his victory, Pena Nieto is expected to face a tough time in advancing reform.

This week’s elections are ushering in changes in Mexico’s congress that look set to complicate Pena…

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