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Preliminary results for Congress give lead to PRI

The National Action Party is in second place according to the reports.

The PRI and PAN are the main political forces in Congress according to the first results of the elections. (Photo: Archive/ EL UNIVERSAL)
07/06/2015 |22:28
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According to the preliminary reports from the just finished elections in Mexico, in the race to renew the federal Congress, the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party heads the results, with 30.06% of the accounted votes.

In second place, the right-wing National Action Party has 20.45%, according to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP)

In third place, the National Renovation Movement (Morena) got 10.16% of the votes, with the Green Party reaching the fourth place with 7.99%

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The New Alliance Party received 4.68% of the votes, Citizen Movement got 4.03% and the Labor Party has 3.43% so far.

New political forces like the Social Encounter Party and the Humanist Party ended with 4.18% and 2.32% respectively, while the independent candidates registered 1.06% and non-registered aspirants received 0.36%.

Also, a total of 5.85% of the accounted votes so far have been invalidated.