61.   Those conflicts and others with the National Action Party have delayed for months negotiations between the governing party and the opposition over election reforms.

62.   This version would focus on election reform.

63.   We are heartened that President Bush has spoken out in favor of election reform.

64.   When Canales lobbied for election reforms two years later, walking up the steps of the colonial statehouse, he was hauled away by police.

65.   What is more, the hearings are directed by a GOP leadership that, rejecting election financing reform, says the current feeble limits ought to be lifted.

66.   When the new Congress convenes in September, Zedillo must help it finish the job of election law reform.

67.   White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush favors election reform.

68.   White House spokesman Scott McClellan later said Bush has made his views clear about election reform.

69.   Political parties and civil society groups have recently been pushing proposals for election reform, but the government has not yet committed to it.

70.   PRI members say election reform is not a matter to be rushed.