sentences:  In spite of this defeat, the PRI continued to perform strongly at Municipal and State levels.The party benefited from both the growing unpopularity of Felipe Calderón's administration as President due to the notorious increase in the homicide rate as result of his war on drugs, as well as internal conflicts in the left-wing Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD) that deteriorated its image.As a result, the PRI won the 2009 legislative election, and in 2012 it regained the Presidency after winning the elections of that year with Enrique Peña Nieto as candidate.