Mexico: Ruling Party Retails Slim Congressional Majority

Mexico's National Electoral Institute has released the results from Sunday's mid-term elections based on 99% of the ballots counted. Abstentionism was the main winner, with 53%. The Institutional Revolutionary Party obtained 29% of the vote, which gives the ruling party a slight working majority in the lower house of Congress; the conservative National Action Party received 21%, the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution 11%, and the newly formed left-wing Morena party 11%. Post-electoral violence continued in the state of Guerrero. Residents in the town of Tlapa burned a car belonging to electoral authorities and detained several police cars with offices inside. Other police fired on protesters, killing a teacher and injuring several others. Violence also broke out in the central state of Guanajuato, where thousands besieged the Pueblo Nuevo city hall and torched police vehicles to protest what they charge are fraudulent election results. teleSUR