Ex-Leader Quits Party Amid Graft Scandal
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From Times Wire Reports
The former head of Mexico’s biggest left-wing party quit the organization in a corruption scandal.
Rosario Robles, who headed the Democratic Revolution Party from 2002 to 2003, was linked with a businessman who was shown in a televised video last week apparently bribing another party member.
Robles said at a news conference that she had “committed errors,” but did not elaborate.
The politician in the video has said the money was a political donation.
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