TIJUANA A week after winning her partys 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 Motas 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 partys 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.
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