Editing Carlos Salinas de Gortari (section)

====Electoral reform====
In the wake of the highly controversial 1988 election results, the government initiated a series of electoral reforms. A major change was the creation of the [[Instituto Nacional Electoral|Federal Electoral Institute]] (IFE) in October 1990, taking elections out of the hands of the Ministry of the Interior to create an independent entity.

The [[1994 Mexican general election|1994 elections]] were the first to have international observers, and were considered, at that time, the fairest elections in the century, although not free of controversy.<ref>{{Cite news| url =https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/13/world/mexico-invites-un-to-attend-election-to-observe-the-observers.html |title= Mexico Invites U.N. to Attend Election to Observe the Observers|author= Tim Golden|newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date = 13 May 1994}}</ref>  For the first time, the PRI lost its two-thirds majority in Congress, which is necessary to conduct constitutional reforms.<ref name="Rivera Ayala 2008 388">{{cite book|last=Rivera Ayala|first=Clara|title=Historia de México II|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning Editores|pages=388}}</ref>