Former Mexico City mayor gets presidential nomination of leftist party
MEXICO CITY Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been named the de-facto presidential nominee of Mexico’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
That’s after he ran unopposed in the P-R-D’s presidential primary.The charismatic and popular Lopez Obrador will be formally sworn in as the party’s nominee sometime in November. But he apparently won’t have access to the party’s campaign funds until the swearing-in ceremony.Lopez Obrador’s only rival – P-R-D founder Cuauhtemoc (koo-OW’-tay-mahk) Cardenas – withdrew from the primary but has refused to rule out a possible run in the 2006 elections for a smaller party. Such a move would probably take votes away from Lopez Obrador.
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Thousands pack Mexico City plaza as ex-mayor accepts leftist coalition's presidential nomination
Tens of thousands filled the Mexican capital's massive main plaza Saturday as a fiery former mayor considered the 2006 presidential race's front-runner formally accepted the nomination of a coalition of leftist parties.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who stepped down as Mexico City mayor to run for president with the Democratic Revolution Party, faced a sea of supporters chanting "Obrador! Obrador!" and wearing hats and waving flags featuring his party's yellow-and-black colors.
But perhaps the best-known face of the Mexican left -- Democratic Revolution founder and perennial presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc
Presidential Nomination Contender in Mexico Drops Out of Race
A contender for a nomination in next year's presidential election in Mexico has dropped out of the race, amid corruption allegations against him.
Former state governor Arturo Montiel said Thursday he would not seek the nomination from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
The decision came amid news reports that officials were investigating more than $3 million in deposits into the bank account of one of his sons, and probing the family's property deals.
His rival, Roberto Madrazo, is now seen as the PRI's likely presidential nominee.
PRI had ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years, until
Factions fighting over Mexico presidency candidates
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who left his job as Mexico City’s mayor in July to run for president, is currently favored to win the nomination of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD). But the party, originally formed through the alliance of several small leftist parties and dissidents who split from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as well as the candidate himself, have been charged with corruption by Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
According to Mexico Labor News, Marcos said that a vote for López Obrador would be little
Mexico ex-mayor launches poll bid
The former mayor of Mexico City has registered his candidacy for next year's presidential race.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed up as a candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party's nomination, after stepping down as mayor on Friday.
Opinion polls suggest he is currently the favourite to win the poll.
Earlier this year he was the subject of a failed legal attempt to bar him from standing. About one million Mexicans rallied in the capital to support him.
"We know what needs to be done to make things better in this country," he said on Saturday.
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Mexico's conservative National Action Party holds second round of presidential primary
Mexico's ruling National Action Party held the second stage of its presidential primary elections on Sunday, with party members in eight southern states choosing between three candidates for the nomination.
Former energy secretary Felipe Calderon won a surprise victory in the first of three primary elections on Sept. 11, but former interior secretary Santiago Creel has pressed hard to try to recoup what was long seen as his favorite status.
A third former member of President Vicente Fox's cabinet, former environment secretary Alberto Cardenas – who ran a distant third
A leftist victor in Mexico race would be no trouble, U.S. says
Mexico's presidential election is more than six months away, but officials in Washington already are sizing up how the three leading candidates would mesh with the United States - including the possibility that the leftist former mayor of Mexico City could win it all in July.
In interviews, officials and scholars said the prospect that Mexico might elect a left-leaning president - as several other Latin American countries have in recent months, most recently Bolivia with its apparent election of Evo Morales - did not pose a problem for
Mexico's Former Ruling Party Leads Vote
Mexico's former ruling party Sunday had a strong lead in northern Coahuila state's gubernatorial race, the last state election before next summer's presidential poll.
With nearly 20 percent of the vote counted late Sunday, Humberto Moreira had 57 percent, compared to 35 percent for Jorge Zermeno, a 56-year-old lawyer and senator running with President Vicente Fox's National Action Party.
A victory by Moreira would serve as another boost for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until losing to Fox in 2000.
The PRI has already shown resilience this year,
Mexico presidential race down to dead heat - poll
The conservative ruling party candidate to become Mexican president next year has raced to a virtual tie with the leftist former Mexico City mayor who had been the clear front-runner, a new poll showed on Monday.
The poll by the daily newspaper Reforma put Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party, or PAN, within 1 percentage point of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Calderon had 28 percent support with Lopez Obrador just ahead on 29 percent.
In third place with 21 percent was Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico
Mexico's former ruling party Sunday was the favorite to win the governorship of Coahuila state, which borders Texas, in the last state election before next summer's presidential race.
A victory by Humberto Moreira would serve as another boast for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until losing to President Vicente Fox, of the conservative National Action Party in 2000.
The PRI has already shown resilience this year, capturing four of the six gubernatorial elections before Sunday, and it has held power in Coahuila since its inception in 1929.
A win by Moreira in this
Mexico's Roberto Madrazo Wins PRI Presidential Primary Election
Mexico's Roberto Madrazo, the former governor of the state of Tabasco, won the primary election for the presidential nomination of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party.
Madrazo had 91 percent of the votes with the ballots from 74 percent of polling stations counted, according to the party's Web site. Everardo Moreno, Madrazo's only rival after former state of Mexico Governor Arturo Montiel dropped out of the contest, had 9 percent of the vote.
Mariano Palacios, president of the party, declared Madrazo the winner as of 11:30 p.m. New York time
