Mexican Presidential Candidates Hold Rallies EFE
go to original March 12, 2012

Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accepts the Citizens Movement"s candidacy for the July presidential election in an address delivered Sunday morning at Mexico City"s Teatro Metropolitan. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - National Action Party, or PAN, presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota and Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, standard bearer Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador officially accepted their nominations at rallies over the weekend in Mexico.

Lopez Obrador accepted the Citizens Movement's candidacy for the July presidential election in an address delivered Sunday morning at Mexico City's Teatro Metropolitan.

The former Mexico City mayor is the candidate of the Progressive Movement coalition, made up of the PRD, the Citizens Movement and the Workers Party, and he will be officially accepting the nominations of all three political movements.

"More of the same is to accept a continuation of the violence, which is generated mainly by the lack of economic growth, jobs and opportunities for young people," Lopez Obrador said.

The presidential candidate promised "real change" to bring about "the rebirth of Mexico."

Vazquez Mota, for her part, spoke before thousands of supporters Sunday afternoon at the Cruz Azul soccer stadium.

The PAN "has not surrendered and today will not be different," Vazquez Mota said, vowing to create "a different Mexico, without impunity and without corruption."

"Today, we can say that the PAN has changed the face of Mexico. We have a party that has changed Mexico in the past 12 years. There is no censorship, there is freedom of expression, there is no pretending, organized crime has been taken on," the presidential candidate said.

Lopez Obrador and Vazquez Mota are going up against Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, who polls show is the favorite to win the presidential election.

Mexico will hold its presidential election on July 1, selecting a successor to President Felipe Calderon, of the PAN.

Some 80 million Mexicans will be eligible to vote for a new president, 628 legislators and thousands of other officials in the general elections.

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