sentences:  The accident has been claimed by the PAN as a state assassination since then.That same year, the PRI lost its first state government with the election of Ernesto Ruffo Appel as governor of Baja California.Luis Donaldo Colosio at the time party president attempted a "democratic experiment" to open up the party at the level of candidates for gubernatorial and municipal elections, which would bar precandidates from campaigning for the nomination, but without a democratic tradition within the party and a basic a fact as the lack of lists of party membership meant the experiment failed.