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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2005 
It's Official: Madrazo to Seek Pri Nomination
 Wire services
| | Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party announced his formal bid to run as the PRI's candidate for the presidency. (Photo: Luis García Soto/El Universal) |
Mexico City – The leader of the party that governed the nation for 71 uninterrupted years until 2000 announced on Sunday that he will seek the nomination to run for president in 2006.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Roberto Madrazo, a former governor of Tabasco state, already is widely viewed as the most likely candidate to represent his party in 2006.
In public opinion polls, Madrazo trails Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
Also from Tabasco state, López Obrador lost to Madrazo in the 1994 governor's race there.
The law prohibits President Vicente Fox from seeking a second term. Former Interior Secretary Santiago Creel is the leading presidential contender within Fox's National Action Party.
Madrazo has helped keep the PRI from collapse after its 2000 presidential loss to Vicente Fox, powering the party through a string of state and local election victories although the PRI lost a February election in Guerrero state, where it had held power for 76 years.
PRI members are expected to start nomination deliberations in mid-July.
Madrazo previously promised to leave the party leadership by that time, as other contenders fretted that he would use his influence as party president to have himself nominated.
But a news release announcing Madrazo's intention to run said nothing about resigning from his party post. |
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