This is John Batchelor.

Election in Mexico, I speak with colleague Mary Anastasio-Grady of the America's column and editor

for the Wall Street Journal editorial page about the pending election in Mexico on Sunday June 2nd.

Significant here is that you cannot succeed yourself.

So Amlo, the very successful grandfatherly figure who is now president,

hand-picked his successor, the former mayor of Mexico City of

Cloty Scheinbaum. There are many issues to do with security and so Chil Galvez,

the challenger, the opposition opposition on the basis of

the outrage of the cartels or the corruption in the government campaigned against

Amlo and his Marina Party.

However, the ambition of the Marina Party, or Amlo now as I understand it,

is to have the domination of the Marina going forward for many decades.

Here Maria explains to us what a one-party state looks like in Mexico because it's happened

before, a party that was known as a Revolutionary Party or the acronym pre in Spanish.

Mariana Stéjo Grady on the legacy of pre, the one party state once upon a time.

More of this later.

For 71 years, one party known as the Institutional

Revolutionary Party, people called the Pre, ruled Mexico.

And there was a very strong centralized power in the executive and

they controlled the judiciary, they controlled the legislature and

there really wasn't any political competition to speak of.

There was no pluralism that we would expect in a Democratic republic.

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