Monday, February 7, 2011

PRD's aspiring candidates for mayor of Mexico City come out of the closet

It may regarded the official start of the campaign to be the PRD's mayoral candidate for Mexico City: Six prominent PRD members in Mexico City held their first public debate this Saturday. They were:

* Laura Velázquez, secretary of economic development
* Benito Mirón, secretary of work
* Armando Quintero, transport secretary
* Martí Batres, secretary of social development (and said to be AMLO's favorite)
* Mario Delgado, education (and said to be Ebrard's favorite)
* Alejandra Barrales, local deputy and head of the ALDF city legislature.

One dark-horse candidate mentioned increasingly the past weeks  as a back-up candidate by Ebrard did not participate: Manuel Mondragón y Kalb, head of public security.

With the possible exception of Mondragón, it seems fair to say that all of PRD's main hopefuls are now officially out of the electoral closet.

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