sentences:  However, massive dissatisfaction with Peña Nieto's administration as a result of numerous corruption scandals and the government's inability to curb the crime rate led to the PRI losing the Presidency once more in the 2018 elections (the PRI candidate in these elections was José Antonio Meade), with a performance even worse than that of 2006.The PRI is described by some scholars as a "state party", a term which captures both the non-competitive history and character of the party itself, and the inextricable connection between the party and the Mexican nation-state for much of the 20th century.In 1990, Peruvian Nobel Prize laureate for literature Mario Vargas Llosa called the uninterrupted Mexican government under the PRI "la dictadura perfecta" ("the perfect dictatorship").