Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election , a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910 and the first one in 71 years to defeat , with 42 percent of the vote , the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) .
Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election , a historically important election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910 . He was the first opposition party member in 71 years to defeat the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) .