Monday, July 03, 2006

Mexico Decides




Mexicans cast their votes yesterday, Sunday, to decide who will succeed Vicente Fox as the country’s next president. The two frontrunners out of the five candidates standing in the hotly contested race are left-of-center former mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and right-of-center former energy minister, Felipe Calderon of the ruling PAN party. Mexicans also voted for 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 128 members of the Senate, as well as governors in the states of Guanajuato, Jalisco and Morelos and the mayor of Mexico City. Mexicans abroad, including an estimated 35,000 based in the US, were eligible to vote in elections for the first time.


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