Female Candidate in Mexico’s Presidential Race
By Adina Moloman
Sources: The Washington Post, The Economist, Fox News
Countries in Latin America like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica are more open to integrate women in the political arena, where have recently elected women to govern their countries. Following the example, the dilema is: Mexico prepared for a woman president?
The excitement part of Mexico’s Presidential election represents a strong female presidential candidate, Josefina Vazquez. This was not the first time when was registered a Women candidate for president in Mexico, but what is making more real is that she is representing PAN one of the three major parties in the country (the other two are PRI And PRD). She is a former congresswoman.
This is a interesting campaign with two other strong candidates: Enrique Pena Nieto for Institutional Revolutionary Party and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for the Democratic Revolution Party, who is making his second run after his loss in 2006. So far the front-runner in the current polls is the “PRI handsome” candidate who hopes to return Mexico’s long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party of 71 years of single party rule, which actually had stopped in 2010 when President Fox was elected in 2000, followed by president Calderon in 2006.
This rise uncertainty, even when the population is tired of the PAN, which has presided over rising violence with less economic development with not strong Mexican Labor Laws.
PAN President chose the “war” on Mexico’s increasingly powerful criminal groups, with the help of the military as a centerpiece of his public security strategy.
But what is interesting to analyze is the mechanism of the Mexico’s old political regime before PAN, related to criminal groups.
It seems that before the presidential election of 2000, officials from PRI protected those criminal groups by controlling and establishing arrangements out of low with those criminal groups. After that, all the working arrangements of this system, went down and the violence rise. One explanation of experts on this theme is that this started to be violent because wasn’t eliminating the high-ranking corruption that had enabled organized crime to operate across the country.
So far the PRI candidate was trashed in different scandals, but nevertheless is the favorite among the women who believes in his charisma and in the same time, Ms. Vazquez is addressing to women as the centerpiece of the family.
