TIJUANA Mexican presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota, of the governing National Action Party (PAN), will visit Baja California on Tuesday.
She is to spend most of her local tour in Ensenada, where party members and the citizens have been invited to a rally at the cruise ship terminal at 7 p.m. Her campaign said other activities are being organized.
Initially, Vázquez Mota had planned to launch her national campaign in Ensenada, the city that "panistas" consider "Mexico's cradle of democracy." It's from that port city that the first opposition governor, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, came.
Ruffo Appel, now a campaign advisor to Vázquez Mota, announced this year that he will run for a Senate seat in Mexico's Congress.
Many analysts see Vázquez Mota, 51, the charismatic former education secretary, as the best chance her party has of retaining the presidency in the election July 1.
However, her opponent, Enrique Peña Nieto, of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is leading in the polls.
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