The Battalion Tuesday "July8, Tm Elections held in Mexico Incomplete results point to division of power U.S. counters NATO expansion efforts MEXICO CITY (AP) — In an electoral revolution it brought on itself through democratic reforms, Mexi co’s ruling party has lost its decades-long monopoly on power and faces a new challenge: sharing power with an opposition. The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was punished Sunday by voters fed up with economic cri sis and the last vestiges of an authoritarian system. Incomplete results Monday showed the PRI losing the Mexico City mayorship to veteran opposition politi cian Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, losing at least two of six governor’s races and, most importantly, its long, un questioned lock on Congress. President Ernesto Zedil lo may become the first Mexican president since 1913 to face an opposition legislature. That means cooperation must replace the bullying and arm-twisting that has worked since PRI’s founding 68 years ago. The kind of rubberstamp congressional vote that ensured approval of President Carlos Salinas de Gor- tari’s North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 is likely a thing of the past. However, it was still too early to predict how the new Congress would work with the president on such controversial issues as free trade and anti-drug policy. “The rules of the game have changed,” said a lead ing political commentator, Sergio Sarmiento. “The rul ing party must learn how to negotiate to survive.” The PRI will continue to wield enormous power. “It will still be the leading party in Mexico,” Sarmiento said. Despite the uncertainties, the vote was generally viewed as positive in both Mexico and abroad. Investors reacted favorably Monday in Mexico, where the peso strengthened and the stock market rose. Born out of the ashes of the Mexican Revolution, the PRI was created in 1929 to unite feuding generals and bring peace to a country torn by fighting that killed 1 million people. For many years it provided the stabili ty that allowed Mexico to rebuild its devastated econo my and political system. The PRI built a broad power base supported by the army, labor, peasants, and public employees. But in the past decade, it began to crumble when the government sold off hundreds of state enterprises, labor and peas ant organizations lost their clout and economic crisis drove former party stalwarts to the opposition. Former president Salinas, the PRI candidate elected in 1988 in balloting marred by widespread fraud, pushed through the first major reforms that chipped away the party’s hold on power. His successor, Zedillo, passed even more. The PRI sought Sunday to cast its most brutal elec toral loss ever as an important democratic advance. Zedillo’s reforms “have passed their first test very sat isfactorily,” said ruling party national leader Humber to Roque. Even with the reforms, “the PRI has come out ahead in this electoral process,” he insisted. With more than 85 percent of ballots counted Mon day for the lower house of Congress, the PRI had near ly 39 percent of the vote compared with 27 percent for the center-right National Action Party and almost 26 percent for Cardenas’ left-center Democratic Revolu tion Party. Five other parties divided the rest. A party needs at least 42 percent of the vote to win a majority in the lower house. Of the 500 seats, 300 are di rectly elected and 200 are allotted proportionally. The last time a Mexican president faced a hostile Congress was during the Mexican revolution. Gen.Vic- torino Huerta staged a military coup and killed Presi dent Francisco Madero in 1913, dissolving the pro- Madero Congress a few months later. In other races Sunday, Cardenas became the capi tal’s first elected mayor since 1928. Previously, the post was appointed by the president. a Mexico elections Results as of 10 am. EDT PRI institutional Revolutionary Party PAN National Action Party %£prd Democratic Revolution Party CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES 79.2 percent of the vote counted PRI 38.1% 27.4% 25.9% SENATE 79.31 percent of the vote counted PRI 37.51% 27.66% 26.02% MEXICO CITY MAYOR 79.7 percent of the vote counted BjO'cPRD '/io 47.7% PRI 25.51% 16.06% Conflicts abound during Northern Ireland’s ‘marching season’ 25 km Atlantic Ocean .UNITED (INGOOM /•Londonderry , •Strabane NORTHERN / ) IRELAND ufcp? z' Coalisland ^ •Armagh r •^v IRELAND \ i*> Newry ' Irish Sea BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Even as fresh conflicts brewed Monday night, police were summing up the vio lence to date in Northern Ireland’s “marching season.” More than 100 civilians and police wounded. About 250 cars burned. Some 700 gasoline bombs thrown at police. More than 1,600 plastic bullets fired back by police. Rampages began Sunday after police and soldiers clubbed Catholic protesters out of a Protestant parade route through the main Catholic neighborhood in Portadown. The rioting wounded hopes for a new IRA cease-fire and a wider peace settlement pursued by new British and Irish leaders. All the numbers were certain to rise with Catholic fury flowing unabated at the start of Northern Ireland’s annual “marching season.” The Orange Order — the largest Protestant organiza tion — was mounting hundreds of parades through the week, climaxing Saturday with the 307th anniversary of Protestant King William of Orange’s defeat of the de throned Catholic King James II. Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam approved the heavy-handed military operation on Portadown’s Garvaghy Road, which kept the area’s 3,000 residents locked in behind more than 100 armored cars and 1,500 riot police and troops. On Monday, she called it “the least worst option” to enable Orangemen to parade through the area quickly and quietly. She said Protestants would have caused widespread may hem if the Orangemen had been blocked, and some might have killed Catholic civilians, as happened last year when po lice tried to block the same march. Instead, amid the rioting in Catholic areas throughout Northern Ireland, the IRA and a smaller paramilitary group, MADRID, Spain (AP) — The United States fought off efforts by a majority of its European allies Monday to nominate more than three East European countries for NATO membership in the first phase of an enlargement. President Clinton also planned to ask allied leaders to get tough on Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who has oper ated freely in the nearly two years since the Dayton peace agree ment. Karadzic has been indicted for war crimes for his role in Bosnia’s 3 1 /2-year war. U.S. Secretaiy of State Madeleine Albright said the two-day NATO summit starting here Tuesday would discuss “possible coordinat ed action” against Karadzic, who has been trying to retake power from Biljana Plavsic, president of the Bosnian-Serb sub-state. “We will help those who help Dayton and isolate those who op pose the peace Dayton would provide,” Albright said. Tens of thousands of NATO-led troops have been in Bosnia since December 1995, but alliance offi cials repeatedly have said their mission does not include seeking out war crimes suspects. Clinton arrived Monday after noon from a weekend holiday on the Mediterranean island of Mal lorca and was scheduled to meet privately with NATO Secretary- General Javier Solana and Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. The Madrid summit was called to begin enlarging the 16-nation defense alliance and deal with other issues of modernizing NATO. Chief among the problems was deciding just how many new members to bring in. Top alliance officials sched uled a late-night meeting to work out as many of the remaining problems as possible before the presidents and prime ministers gather Tuesday morning. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were certain to get invita tions to begin negotiations on be coming members of NATO. The United States, backed by and five other countries, Sc enough. France and Italy led group of nine that favor also adi Romania and Slovenia. The United States seemedst: to prevail, though at the expeo of ruffling more than a few feathers. The French, well awa they can’t win a face-offwithtl Americans, were trying to pus through a statement namingRi mania and Slovenia as tliene countries invited and settingspe cific dates for that. “We have to be quite plined in making judgmentsaboa who should come in to membei- ship of NATO, and 1 think they (Rn mania and Slovenia) shouldgt consideration. I just don’t thinij this time they should be adit: ted,” Clinton said. Washington never has clearh a plained what criteria Romaniaanl Slovenia have failed to meet, buth* insisted Poland, Hungary and dif Czech Republic will not be theta new members NATO invites.Wash' ington’s real wony is gettingthefol batch through the U.S. Senate ha two-thirds majority. After the candidates aredes ignated, parliaments of all cut rent members must ratify the decision. There is little opposi tion in Europe but that is notso in the United States. Clinton also met with me bers of the Senate-NATO ( server Group, a lobby led Sens. William Roth and JosephR, Biden Jr. of Delaware. “They pointed out to me in no uncertain terms we’ve gotasi job to do,” the president said. Russia, which vehementlyop- poses NATO enlargement nonetheless signed an a ment in May setting out doser cooperation with NATO. Ukraine is expect ed to sign a similar doc ument here Wednesday. On Bosnia, Albright said shs wants to coordinate NATO ac tion against all who engage: “extra-legal activities” in do' a nee of the Dayton accords. Hun Sen tightens control of Phnom Penh Weather Outlook PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Soldiers ran roughshod over the Cambodian capital Mon day, stocking up with gusto on the spoils of a weekend coup: looted televisions, washing machines and cars hijacked at gunpoint. At least 35 people were killed in two days of fighting in Phnom Pehn when Second Prime Minister Hun Sen deposed his main rival and coalition partner, First Prime Minis ter Prince Norodom Ranariddh. The prince had slipped away to France just before the coup. Thou sands of ordinary Cambodians grabbed children and belongings and fled mortar and machine-gun battles in the capital. The airport re mained closed Monday, stranding American college students from Ok lahoma and other foreigners. 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