By Mohamed Zayed, iNews Cayman special correspondent

The Supreme Committee of the presidential election has declared Enrique Pena Nieto, Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate, president with 38 % against his closet leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, with a wide margin of 7 points.  Mexico‘s election law states that the result be decided in the first round, and one term only in office for the president. But Obrado has declared to the media that the election has witnessed a wide range of vote-buying for Nieto in many parts of Mexico, Some videos confirmed this speculation as they show that members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were distributing money among the electorate to vote for their candidate. The losing candidate has demanded recounting of the ballot boxes, and promised to fight to the end.

Looking back to PRI, history, it governed the country with repression from 1922 to 2000. Human rights violations were widespread throughout the country. In every election, the PRI won the race with 70 %, it was considered rigging. It was presenting successor after successor to dominate the whole political stage. The party was holding the entire media outlets. PRI managed to put its roots in the different aspects, the military, and police and state institutions .In the last decades; Mexico has high levels of corruption among the world.

On the other hand, Mr. Nieto is trying to appease his opponents ‘s fear; he said that he remade the whole party to put Mexico forward. He also declared that no negotiations would be with drug cartels, he has hired Gen Oscar Naranjo, the former head of Columbia’s police who helped the United States to take down notorious cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. It is instructive that about 60, 000 were killed in the last six years and the security was to some extent stable in the country when RIP was holding power. In a way to impose stability on the street, he will try to launch indirect negotiations with gangs and drugs especially the Zetas, the biggest drugs cartel in Americas. Because most Mexicans are fed up with violence as they see often bodies beheaded or hanged from bridges.

It seems that the new president will not continue the security solution that depends on sending in military and police special forces. RIP will work hard to achieve security in the country; some members have close relations with prominent gangsters to establish the rules of play. Drugs cartels will find it a special opportunity to improve their conditions as most of their production is imported to neighboring USA. But there is a big constraint; the US administration will not accept something like that. The United States and Mexico share about 2,000 mile borders, and about 350, 000,000 people cross the borders a year. This border is porous and the US government feels concerned with speculation on negotiating with gangs, Democrat representative Henry Cuellar has said, “I told his people to be very clear, there will be no truce or approval of cartels.”