{"id":54177,"date":"2017-12-09T05:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54177"},"modified":"2017-12-09T05:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:59:57","slug":"mexico-right-left-coalition-presents-bid-to-run-in-2018-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/mexico-right-left-coalition-presents-bid-to-run-in-2018-election.html","title":{"rendered":"Mexico right-left coalition presents bid to run in 2018 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mexico right-left coalition presents bid to run in 2018 election<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mexico\u2019s newest political force formally emerged on Friday when a right-left coalition presented its official request with the electoral institute to compete in next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The coalition, known as \u201cFor Mexico in Front,\u201d brings together the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Citizens Movement party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The coalition will compete against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and leftist frontrunner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), in next July\u2019s vote. President Enrique Pena Nieto is constitutionally barred from running again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">With the formalizing of the coalition, the contours of the election are beginning to take shape. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen who \u201cFor Mexico in Front\u201d will pick as its candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">PAN president Ricardo Anaya is seen as the most likely figure, although Mexico City\u2019s PRD Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera is also seen as a contender. Former Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala broke with the PAN in October in order to run as an independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Last week, Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade resigned to seek the presidential nomination of the PRI, which has broken with tradition by seeking outside help to clean up its tarnished image and stay in office for another six years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The PRI faces an uphill battle to reclaim the presidency, and is banking on Meade, who is not a PRI member and has a reputation for honesty, to win over voters tired by years of graft, violence and lackluster growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mexico-politics\/mexico-right-left-coalition-presents-bid-to-run-in-2018-election-idUSKBN1E3063<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/mexico-right-left-coalition-presents-bid-to-run-in-2018-election.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico right-left coalition presents bid to run in 2018 election Mexico\u2019s newest political force formally emerged on Friday when a right-left coalition presented its official request with the electoral institute to compete in next year\u2019s presidential election. 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