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.
‘Poor first’
On Friday Mr Lopez Obrador addressed thousands of his supporters in a speech to mark the end of his time as mayor.
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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
Zapatista rebel chief launches attack on Mexico's politicians
The leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement emerged from hiding and for the first time in four years showed his masked face to the public, launching a broadside against the country's politicians.
He told supporters in San Rafael: ''They'll pay for everything they have done to us. They are a bunch of shameless scoundrels."
The leader, known as "Subcomandante Marcos", was speaking near the jungles of Chiapas state, where the rebels have their stronghold.
He targeted the former mayor of Mexico City and front-runner in next year's presidential elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "They say: 'Maybe
Calderon Gains Support in Mexico Presidential Poll
Felipe Calderon, Mexican President Vicente Foxs former energy minister, gained support among the countrys voters in an opinion poll taken after the June 6 presidential debate.
Support for Calderon, the National Action Partys candidate, rose to 37 percent from 36 percent a week ago, while backing for former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Party of the Democratic Revolutions candidate, fell to 34 percent from 36 percent, according to a poll released by the Mexico City-based newspaper El Universal. The poll has an margin of error of plus or minus 3.4
Former Mexico City mayor still ahead in polls
MEXICO CITY: Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continues to lead public opinion polls in advance of the 2006 presidential election.
Another survey was released today.Lopez Obrador is the nominee of the left-leaning Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD.He was supported by 39 percent of those surveyed for a poll published in the daily Milenio newspaper _ ten points ahead of Roberto Madrazo, the likely presidential nominee for the former ruling center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.In third place with 25 percent was Felipe Calderon, the official nominee of President Vicente Fox's conservative
Lopez Obrador's Lead Cut in Mexico Presidential Poll
Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the frontrunner in presidential opinion polls for more than two years, lost ground in a November poll, the first since the major parties chose their candidates.
The nationwide poll by Consulta Mitofsky found Lopez Obrador's likely voters fell to 29.5 percent of those surveyed from 37.9 percent in August. Support for President Vicente Fox's National Action Party grew, with 24.4 percent saying they'd vote for Felipe Calderon compared with backing of 20.2 percent in August for the party's then-leading candidate, former Interior Minister Santiago Creel.
Mexico conservative holds election lead in new poll
The conservative ruling party candidate in Mexicos presidential race has a 2-point lead over his main leftist rival, according to a newspaper poll published on Thursday that confirms a recent trend.
The survey by Excelsior newspaper gave Felipe Calderon 36 percent support compared with 34 percent for former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It was the first time Calderon has led the Excelsior poll, which last month showed Lopez Obrador ahead by 2 percentage points.
It follows a series of more closely watched newspaper polls that also showed Calderon moving ahead of the
Mexico City mayor's last speech a platform for next move
Mexico City's popular leftist mayor bid farewell to the city's 9 million residents yesterday during a rousing state of the city address that set the stage for his campaign to become Mexico's next president.
With a wave and a thumbs-up sign to a cheering crowd, Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador stepped down from the job that thrust him into the national spotlight five years ago and made him the leading candidate for the 2006 presidency.
"I am going to fight together with many Mexicans, women and men, for a true transformation of
Mexicos Calderon Leads in Universal Election Poll
Mexicos Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister for President Vicente Fox, took the lead in a voter opinion poll by El Universal for the first time.
Calderon, the National Action Partys candidate, led with 39 percent of voters preferences in May from 34 percent in April, the Mexico City-based newspaper reported today. Mexico holds presidential elections on July 2.
The survey is at least the fourth to show Calderon,43, overtaking former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had led polls for more than two years before April 25. Lopez Obradors support
Fox favorite headed for Mexico primary defeat-poll
A former Cabinet minister seen as President Vicente Fox's favorite for the July 2006 elections, might lose the ruling party's primaries this weekend and be forced out of the race, according to a poll on Wednesday.
The Reforma newspaper poll of National Action Party members likely to vote in Sunday's final round of presidential primaries put Santiago Creel way behind Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister who has clashed with Fox.
The poll gave Calderon 54 percent of Sunday's vote in 13 states and the capital city, against former interior minister Creel's 29 percent.
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Mexico: 51% of poll respondents think Hugo Chavez is to blame for the rift
Many adults in Mexico believe the Venezuelan President is responsible for the recent spat between the two countries, according to a poll by Milenio ... 51% of respondents think Hugo Chavez is to blame for the rift.
Conversely, 22% of respondents say Mexican president Vicente Fox is responsible.
The problems began earlier this month during the Summit of the Americas in Argentina. Chavez expressed displeasure with the proposed region-wide free trade agreement backed by the United States. Chavez favors the exclusively South American free trade zone, known as Mercosur,
