and will test the nation's democratic system. Millions of Mexican citizens will go to the polls on June 2 to elect a new president, all members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, as well as eight governors, Mexico City's Head of Government, 31 local congresses, and other representatives around

competition by requiring participation of small players in bidding processes, anticorruption and competition authorities said. The proposal, sent to the Chamber of Deputies last week, would create a digital platform to hold information about all public acquisitions, ultimately speeding up government purchases and increa

of Economy, Finance and Industry from 1997-1999. He had also played a major role in the French Socialist Party (PSI), having first been elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1986, and was now in line to be its Presidential candidate. Even though French President Nicolas Sarkozy had backed his appointment at the IMF f