Campaigning in Mexico’s presidential race already under way
More than a year before Mexico’s presidential election, the three apparent front-runners already are campaigning hard, stumping the nation and filling airwaves with ads, promises and tirades - even though none of them has been officially nominated.
The early start to the election season - parties won’t pick their candidates until fall and the Federal Electoral Commission won’t register them until Jan. 1 - underscores how eager Mexico’s largest political parties are to secure the presidency as the six-year rule of President Vicente Fox winds down.
Fox was a novelty in Mexican history - the first candidate in 71 years to topple the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, when he won the 2000 election.
Fox’s National Action Party, or PAN, would like to remain in control of the presidency. But the competition is most likely to come down to a two-man battle between the candidates of the PRI and the Revolutionary Democratic Party, or PRD.
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Migration Moves Into Mexicos Presidential Race
As immigration reform progresses in Washington ahead of the 2006 mid-term elections, the issue of how Mexicans, legal and illegal, are treated in America is becoming an issue in Mexicos political arena as well.
While the issue isnt as divisive for Mexican politicians - all advocate better treatment of Mexican citizens in the U.S. - candidates in the upcoming presidential election are seeking to leverage the issue to their benefit.
Felipe Calderon, who is barely leading leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has staked out the immigration issue, speaking out against the Senates proposal to erect
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
Calderon leads Mexico presidential race
Mexicos ruling party candidate held onto his narrow lead in the disputed presidential election after a partial recount of votes, the top electoral court said Monday in a strong indication that conservative Felipe Calderon will be declared the winner.
But the judges held off on naming the president-elect and still have the option to annul the election.
Calderons leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reacted to the courts announcement in outrage, calling on supporters never to accept Calderon as president and asking them to decide if he should form a parallel government or carry on a nationwide campaign
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
Front-runner in Mexico's presidential race suddenly has competition
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a fiery leftist who captured the hearts of Mexico's poor and disenfranchised, has been the man to beat in the early race for Mexico's president.
But three out of four polls released in the past two weeks show his two main competitors _ Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Felipe Calderon of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party _ catching up.
There are still more than seven months to go before the vote on July 2. But the recent polls _ two of which showed the three candidates
Chavez roils Mexico's presidential race
The presidents of Venezuela and Mexico trade barbs, and pull their ambassadors.
First, there was the name-calling: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called his Mexican counterpart an American "puppy dog" after President Vicente Fox defended a US plan for a free-trade zone last week.
Mr. Chávez led several other Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina in proclaiming the idea dead. Chávez taunted that Mr. Fox was "bleeding from his wound."
Then Mexico ordered the Venezuelan ambassador to pack his bags and prepare to be expelled unless Chávez apologized. Chávez refused. Instead, he warned:
US to work with Mexicos future president
The United States said on Monday that it will work with the winner in Mexicos presidential race and expressed confidence that a winner will be announced soon.
The Mexican government has announced that they will declare a winner, we think on Wednesday, and at that point, the president will congratulate the winner, White House spokesman Tony Snow said at a briefing.
We are going to work with the government of Mexico. Its an ally and neighbor, and obviously, weve got a great number of shared interests,
Mexico's presidential race marked by mudslinging
Campaign seen as test of democratic progress
The race for Mexico's presidency has featured mudslinging, backstabbing, revelations of a questionably obtained Miami penthouse, videotapes of cash-filled suitcases, and allegations of Communist leanings. All this before the campaign has even officially begun -- and with the election almost seven months away.
Political analysts predict the mud will continue to fly until the vote in July, with three major candidates in a virtual dead heat to succeed Vicente Fox in a contest that many view as a crucial test of Mexico's democratic progress.
Fox's watershed election in 2000 broke the
Mexico election race turns as conservative surges
Mexicos ruling party presidential candidate appears to be pulling away from his leftist rival after aggressive TV ads propelled his dramatic surge in an election race being fought on economic policies.
A closely watched poll in the Reforma newspaper on Wednesday showed Felipe Calderon, a conservative, with 40-percent support among probable voters and his left-wing challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador trailing at 33 percent.
Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who promises to put the poor first, had been Mexicos most popular politician for three years and was the clear election front-runner until
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
