PAN candidate to visit Tijuana on Monday

Vázquez Mota pressing campaign against PRI

Por: SanDieoRed.com 11 Febrero 2012 @ 9:25 am

Tamaño: Aumentar Tamaño de Letra Disminuir Tamaño de Letra

Josefina Vázquez Mota, the ruling PAN’s candidate, is to hold a rally Monday at 6 p.m. in Tijuana. Facebook JVM

TIJUANA – A week after winning her party’s presidential primary, Josefina Vázquez Mota will visit this border city Monday to thank her supporters and press her uphill fight against the frontrunner candidate.

That candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), himself visited Baja California on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The ruling PAN party in Tijuana announced Vázquez Mota’s visit through its social media accounts. She is to hold a rally at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Auditorium to thank the support she received from Tijuana to win her party’s primary on Sunday, making her the first female candidate with a realistic chance of becoming president.

Of the 3,738 votes PAN members cast in Tijuana, she received 2,675, compared to 554 votes for Santiago Creel, a former Interior minister, and 509 for Ernesto Cordero, a former Finance minister.

Peña Nieto met campaign volunteers and had private meetings in Mexicali and Tijuana during his local visit. The latest national poll has him well ahead of Vázquez Mota, though that lead has dropped nearly 20 percentage points in the last three months.

editorial@sandiegored.com

Deja Tu Comentario

Debes ingresar al sitio para comentar

¿No tienes cuenta? Regístrate en SanDiegoRed.com

Ingresa con Facebook

Connect with Facebook

Comentarios

0 Puntos

ChrisMay

12 de Febrero

No president, with the exception of Calderon, showed the will to make a meaningful stand against crime and corruption, but he has been ridiculed for the effort; traces of American style political mudslinging evident. If Calderon ¨stole¨the election, history will show that Mexico could have done much worse. Mexicans can´t demand more from their president or their government until they are prepared to demand more from themselves. Like America, that seems to be a long way off indeed. Mexicans, like Americans, make a bunch of noise, organize events, bring out the stars, get all excited and then walk away when it´s all over.

Corruption in Mexico is rampant. Political representatives are on the take from the local deputy to who knows where; if there is no "cut" in it for them, no "Payoff," the you can forget about it. The people of Mexico don´t deserve it, but they tolerate it.

Who knows how long the people will condone this behavior? How many more years will Mexico endure an economy that has more than 50% below the line? The answer is: As long as they want. Viva Mexico!