Pena Nieto beat leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez with 38.2 per cent of the vote against 31.6 per cent. Lopez Obrador accuses Pena Nieto of winning through “paid favourable media coverage and handouts of 1.8 million gift cards.” According to The Age, the PRI “ruled Mexico for decades until 2000 using a mixture of patronage, repression, rigged elections and bribery.”































