Mexico City Mayor Eyes Presidency in 2018 Prensa Latina
go to original July 12, 2012

The head of Mexico City's government, Marcelo Ebrard, announced he will seek another nomination for the presidency in the general election of 2018, the press reported this week.

Ebrard ends his term in December this year and will be succeeded by the candidate of the Progressive Movement, Miguel Angel Mancera, winner of the July 1 elections for this capital's highest leadership post, with more than 63 percent of the vote.

The politician said that an application must be begun six years in advance, so he will start on December 6, one day before his administration ends.

In an interview sith Excelsor newspaper, Ebrard made clear that the party presidential candidate of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) and the Citizen Movement, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has every right to ask for the resolution of irregularities from the last elections.

In 2010 Ebrard sought election from the left to the Presidency, but put this aspiration to the side in 2011 in favor of Lopez Obrador, who finished second in the elections on July 1st with 31.59 percent of the vote, according to the final calculation of the Federal Electoral Institute.

The agency ratified the first place lead of Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, with 38.21 percent, while Josefina Vazquez Mota, the ruling National Action Party (PAN) was relegated to a third with 25.41.

A fourth candidate, Gabriel Quadri, the New Alliance Party only scored 2.29 percent of the vote.

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