<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox" id="mwAWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vicente Fox">Vicente Fox Quesada</a> is inaugurated as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Mexico" id="mwAWU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Mexico">president of Mexico</a>, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.<sup about="#mwt113" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_1#cite_note-23" id="mwAWY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWc">[23]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt117" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_1#cite_note-24" id="mwAWg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWk">[24]</span></a></sup>
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