Thousands March in Mexico Before Election Debate Associated Press
go to original June 11, 2012

Students belonging to the 132 movement march towards the second presidential debate site in Guadalajara, Mexico. (AP)
    
Thousands of mostly young demonstrators have clogged the streets of Mexico City hours before the country's final presidential debate, chanting slogans against the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Polls say the PRI is poised to retake power after a 12-year hiatus.

Marchers gathered in the city center Sunday shouting "Not one vote for the PRI!" and "Out with Pena!" - a reference to PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as he prepared to debate his rivals in Guadalajara, the country's second-largest city.

The demonstration drew at least 20,000 participants by the city government's early count.

Protesters say a PRI victory will mean a return to the party's autocratic rule that ended after seven decades when Vicente Fox won the 2000 election. Pena Nieto has said he represents a new democratic PRI.

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