Womens Vote Will be Ticket To Victory Patrick Ferguson - The News
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Peña Nieto confident about Mexican female support.

MEXICO CITY – Presidential aspirant Enrique Peña Nieto said that he is confident he will win the presidency of Mexico on July 1 thanks to the women’s vote.

“I place my hope and confidence in victory (in the July 1 election) on Mexican women,” said Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

In a press conference on Thursday, International Women’s Day, Peña Nieto said that if he wins the election later this year, he will fight for women’s rights and justice. The candidate also said that the election will not be determined by gender alone.

“This is not a competition based on gender but a competition based on proposals and platforms,” he said.

Although, in Mexico, women are less likely to vote than men, women still outnumber men by a few million and will most likely prove to be a strong voting demographic this next election.

Meanwhile, Josefina Vazquez Mota, the National Action Party’s (PAN) presidential aspirant, congratulated women via Twitter on their day and wrote “The most important challenge is that women’s goals stop being defined exclusively by gender and are universal.” Vazquez Mota is expected to garner many women’s votes as she is the first woman to run for the Mexican presidency from a major political party.

Also on Thursday, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, the left’s presidential candidate, said that upon winning the election, his administration will build a travel corridor connecting two ports on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean by highways and railroads to promote commerce between Mexico and Europe and Asia.

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