Mexico has never had a female candidate for president, but increasingly women have expressed interest in the job. Several weeks ago the Yucatan´s governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco said the time is ripe (http://mexicogulfreporter-supplement.blogspot.com/2011/11/governor-ortega-for-president.html). But Ortega won't be seeking the presidency herself. Early indications are that she may support a leading male candidate, with the hope of eventually serving in his administration.
Josefina Vázquez Mota is a woman who has expressed interest in the job. She belongs to PAN, the somewhat right-of-center National Action Party headed by Mexico´s current president, Felipe Calderon. She is a former Secretary of Public Education under president Felipe Calderón, and before that Secretary of Social Development under former president Vicente Fox. Mota is probably a long shot candidate.
In Mexico there are no formal primary elections. Candidates are chosen by the internal party machinery and by power-brokers. Call it politics Chicago-style, as in the days of the Richard Daley machine. But Mota is urging her fellow party functionaries to abandon the old system, and to replace it with a very public and open selection of a party standard bearer. ¨We should put our democratic values to the test" in this primary process, said Mota in a press conference yesterday (September 18).
"I believe that an open (primary) process will modernize our party, rebuild it so that it´s more in tune with the citizenry and enable us to select a candidate with powerful leadership skills who is ready for the road ahead in 2012," added Mota. "An open election will give voice to citizens."
PAN´s president has already formally asked the party´s Executive Committee to consider changes which would open primaries to greater "public input." In her press conference Mota said that she has been invited by several PAN leaders to make a political tour of the country, which she plans to do. Mota said she will not be deterred by security risks.
Josefina definitivamante seria la mejor opcion para el PAN, sin embargo, considerando la situacion politica y social tan quebrantada del pais requiere determinacion y actuacion, no considero que Josefina pueda ser el presidente que se necesita en estos momentos, pues ella siempre se ha inclinado por la mediacion y la negociacion y nunca por la accion, aun ella lo ha manifestado asi. ?querra negociar con el narco?, aunque al parecer es lo que va ha pasar no importa quien sea el siguente presidente, el pueblo lo pide en silencio aunque lo grite lo ocntrario
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