THE P.R.I. PARTY MAKES A PRESIDENTIAL COMEBACK IN SUNDAY'S ELECTION IN MEXICO............

Twelve years after being deposed as the controlling power, political party of Mexico for more than seven decades, P.R.I., the Institutional Revolutionary Party Candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, was projected the winner of the Mexican Presidential Election Sunday night.  Mr.  Pena Nieto, has at least a seven point lead over his National Action Party opponent, Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to the Mexican Federal Election Institute, which released vote count totals of 38% for Pena Nieto; 31% for Lopez Obrador; and 25% for a third party candidate.  National Action Party candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost the Presidency to current President Felipe Calderon in 2006, and refused to accept defeat; is now again refusing to concede the 2012 Election to Enrique Pena Nieto.  The P.R.I.. Party, which held virtue one party control and a presidential dictatorship in Mexico from 1929-2000, a seven decade period during which they were oppressive of the citizenry, and particularly of the Church.  They have been entrusted anew by a plurality of the Mexican people with election of Mexico's next President, who is a 45 year old, charismatic, former Governor of Mexico State, the largest State in the country.  The highly embroiled drug violence in the past five years, that has led to over 47,000 killings, and Pena Nieto's promise, "to reduce the drug violence", is thought to be central to his electoral victory.  Having been defeated and removed from power a dozen years ago, the expectation of the citizens voting to elect the P.R.I. candidate is that as President he and his Party will govern differently than they did in decades past, democratically, rather than dictatorally.  When the vote tally is completed and confirmed, the transition from outgoing President Calderon, with the incoming President Elect Pena Nieto, will begin - leading to the Inauguration of the new President in December............Fr.  Troy