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Mexican party leader ousted

Monday 16 December 1996 00:02 GMT
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After a string of electoral losses and defections of officials, the head of Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party resigned. Santiago Onate Laborde's departure was seen as an attempt to stop the party's grip on power weakening. Insiders blamed him for much of its trouble.

AP -Mexico City

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