DF Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera Joins Early Hopefuls in Run for 2018 Presidency Agence France-Presse
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Mancera (center) with López Obrador (far left), and others at López Obrador presidential campaign, 2012. (Eneas De Troya/Wikipedia)

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera has joined an early group of presidential hopefuls and left the door open for an historic run as an independent in the 2018 race.

"I want to be president," Mancera, the mega-city's 49-year-old former chief prosecutor, told Milenio television late Monday.

Mancera was elected mayor in 2012 under the banner of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) but he is not a member of it, giving him the option to run as an independent... Mancera is the third politician to announce his presidential aspirations.

On Sunday, former first lady Margarita Zavala, the wife of ex-president Felipe Calderon, said she would seek the presidency. The former federal lawmaker is a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN).

Leftist former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a two-time presidential candidate for the PRD in 2006 and 2012, has also announced his plans to run for his new party, Morena.

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