The state of play in Mexico

In addition to managing Mexico's relationship with the US, the new Mexican president has quite the array of domestic issues to address.

The election in November isn’t the only important election taking place in North America this year. On Sunday (June 2), Mexicans turned out to elect a slew of positions including,

• All 128 seats in the Senate and all 500 in the lower house,

• Local congresses in 31 states, and

• Nine governors (including Mexico City).

In all, over 20,000 governmental posts were …