Addressing his Cabinet and hundreds of dignitaries at a celebration of his first 100 days, Pena Nieto jubilantly pledged to maintain the breakneck tempo.
Despite the victory Italy still finished bottom of the table, but the fact mattered little to both players, management and supporters who celebrated jubilantly in Rome.
Early Thursday, Kurds crowded into Kirkuk's central square, jubilantly following in the footsteps of Iraqis in the south and north to Baghdad, by toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein and dancing on its broken carcass.
Her supporters are now jubilantly pointing out that he needs to win at least a third of the votes in the city to beat her (the latest statewide polls show him only about four percentage points ahead).