Recently, Josefina Vazquez Mota became the first woman
nominated for president by any of Mexico's major political parties. Polls show
that she is trailing Enrique Peña Nieto, the attractive, fresh face of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico with an iron fist
until 2000. But, her victory in the primary for the National Action Party (PAN)
has shaken up the race.
Mexico has had a background of a machismo country, and this nomination has come as a shock to most of the people. Women status has been rising and the
election of a female president might just be the requirement to get Mexico out
of it’s image of a male dominated country.
All we can wait for is July 1st, 2012, the date
for the general elections.
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