Legislative elections were held in

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on 6 July 1997.Mexico awaits verdict in historic election
CNN, 6 July 1997 The

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won 239 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the first time it had failed to win a majority. As a result, the leaders of the

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and of the National Action Party were able to control Congress and installed PRD member

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as the president of the Chamber of Deputies. At first, the PRI refused to accept the nomination and its parliamentary leader,

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, declared it illegal. However, the PRI later accepted the fact and Muñoz Ledo answered the state of the union address of President

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. Following the elections, the

Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction The Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction ( es, text=Partido Frente Cardenista de Reconstrucción Nacional; PFCRN) was a Mexican political party that arose during the 1989 elections, having evolved from the coffee cooperative ...

, the Popular Socialist Party and the

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lost their legal registrations and subsequently disappeared. Voter turnout was between 57% and 58%.

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(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp465-467

Results

Senate

Chamber of Deputies

References

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Legislative elections in Mexico June 1997 events in Mexico