In elections held july 2, 2000, _______ of the center-right national action party (pan) was elected president of mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the institutional revolutionary party (pri).
Fox received 42.5% of the votes for president as the opposition party candidate. Francisco Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party got 36% of the vote cast and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of the Party of the Democratic Revolution received about 16.5% of the votes cast.
Vicente Fox served as Mexico's president from 2000 to 2006.
