PRI’s Madrazo to Make Bid for Presidency
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From Times Wire Reports
The leader of the PRI, which governed Mexico for seven decades until 2000, announced that he would seek the nomination to run for president in 2006.
Institutional Revolutionary Party President Roberto Madrazo, a former governor of Tabasco state, already is widely viewed as his party’s most likely candidate.
In opinion polls, Madrazo trails Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
Also from Tabasco state, Lopez Obrador lost to Madrazo in the 1994 governor’s race there.
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