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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2005 
Fox Ally Creel Quits Interior Ministry Job To Run For President
 Wire services
| | Mexico's interior secretary Santiago Creel. |
Mexico City – Mexico's interior secretary announced Wednesday that he was stepping down to start his campaign for the presidential nomination of Mexico's ruling National Action Party.
The secretary, Santiago Creel, 50, announced his resignation at a news conference here. He is widely seen as President Vicente Fox's favorite to represent the conservative PAN in the July 2006 elections. Fox is barred by law from seeking re-election.
Recent polls show Creel as his own party's strongest candidate but still trailing contenders from rival parties, notably leftist Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who beat Creel in a three-way 2000 mayoral race.
The interior secretary oversees domestic political and security affairs, and the post was a political steppingstone for at least six presidents during 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The PRI lost power with Fox's election in 2000. |
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