Mexico

Index

Mexico Main Page
Bloody Political Strife and Trouble with the U.S.
Economic Growth
Turn of the Century Presidential Elections
Drug Violence Plagues the Country
Drug-Related Violence Continues
Party Official Resigns as the Presidential Election Approaches
Enrique Peña Nieto Easily Wins Presidential Election

Party Official Resigns as the Presidential Election Approaches

In December 2011, Humberto Moreira resigned from his position as president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Moreira stepped down because of a financial scandal which threatened his party's chances in the 2012 presidential election. News media coverage connected Moreira to debt and loan irregularities in Coahulia, a state which he governed until January 2011.

His party's candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, became the early frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election. He worked to convince voters that the Institutional Revolutionary Party has moved passed its history of corruption.

In February 2012, Josefina Vázquez Mota was chosen as a presidential candidate for Mexico's National Action Party. Mota, an economist and former education secretary, becomes the first woman nominated by a major party to run for president. "I am going to be the first woman president in history," said Mota, accepting the nomination. After a narrow defeat in the 2006 Presidential election, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was nominated again by the Democratic Revolutionary Party to run in the presidential election, which occurs in July 2012.