Talk about long presidential campaigns
Here's a name to remember: Enrique Pena. He may have started his presidential campaign in Mexico for the 2012 election. (Then again, if you remember Pena in 2012, you might know nothing more than a trivia answer.)Mexico poll predicts PRI winning 2012 election
"Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which was voted out in 2000 after 71 years in power, could retake the presidency in 2012 with a young governor as its new face, a poll showed Friday.
"The PRI, as the party is known by its Spanish initials, is the third-largest party in Congress behind the ruling conservative party and the main leftist opposition, yet it has retained a solid support base and governs about half of Mexico's states.
"A survey by a private Mexican polling firm found 42 percent of respondents would vote in the 2012 presidential election for State of Mexico Gov. Enrique Pena, 41, whom many expect will run as the PRI candidate...
"The survey, published in the daily El Universal, came four days after a separate survey predicted the PRI would win the most seats in mid-term congressional elections in July 2009...
"Pena, a lawyer, is a rising star in the PRI as it tries to shed its old image as corrupt and all-controlling and remodels itself as a more modern-thinking centrist party eager to strike compromises in Congress..."
Labels: elections, Mexico, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:41 AM
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