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Brother of slain Mexican candidate to run instead
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A woman mourns as she touches a photograph of slain gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during his funeral service in Ciudad Victoria, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas June 29, 2010.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The brother of a Mexican gubernatorial candidate killed by suspected drug hitmen will run in his place in this weekend's election in the northeasten Mexican state of Tamaulipas, his party said on Wednesday.
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Rodolfo Torre, of Mexico's main opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which holds power in Tamaulipas, was ambushed by gunmen while traveling to a campaign event on Monday. It was the highest-profile political murder in Mexico in nearly two decades.
The PRI's leader in Tamaulipas named Torre's elder brother Egidio, a former major of the city of Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, as his replacement in Sunday's election and urged voters to turn out despite the killing.
Mexicans will elect governors in 12 states on Sunday, but the election campaigns have been blighted by drug gang intimidation including death threats and the murder of a mayoral candidate also due to run in Tamaulipas.
Mexico is in the grip of a drug war that has killed more than 25,500 people, mostly traffickers and police in the 3-1/2 years since President Felipe Calderon came to power and deployed the army to curb the power of trafficking cartels.
As well as drug gang-plagued Tamaulipas, states going to the polls include Sinaloa, home of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted drug fugitive and leader of the Sinaloa smuggling alliance.
Political parties are due to suspend campaigning on Thursday, but in Tamaulipas candidates have already halted their rallies and political events following Monday's attack, which also killed four aides traveling with Torre.
Rampant drug violence has spooked some investors and small businesses along the U.S.-Mexico border where rival cartels battle for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
The PRI is expected to make big gains on Sunday as the battered economy and drug war hit Calderon's conservative National Action Party.
(Reporting by Miguel Angel Guiterrez; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Xavier Briand)
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