Former Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard Launches New Leftist Movement La Prensa
go to original July 21, 2013

Ebrard, who served as the capital's mayor from 2006 to 2012, ran for the PRD's presidential nomination for the July 1, 2012, election but lost out to another former Mexico City mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - The Progressive Movement, a new group within the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, is being launched with the goal of eventually gaining the party's leadership and winning the presidency, former Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said.

Mexico's leftist political forces must work together to take on President Enrique Peña Nieto and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, Ebrard said during the launch of his movement on Saturday.

Ebrard, who has admitted in some interviews that he would like to make a run for the presidency in 2018, said he would serve as chairman of the Progressive Movement and was aiming to eventually take over the PRD's national leadership.

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