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Mexico's ruling party selects female presidential candidate
Feb 6, 2012, 4:35 GMT
Mexico City - Mexico's ruling National Action Party on Sunday nominated former education minister Josefina Vazquez Mota to be its candidate in the July election.
Mota, 51, is set to be the first woman to front a major party in a Mexican presidential election, after winning 55 per cent of the party's internal ballot.
The favourite in the polls scheduled for July 1 is thought to be the former governor of the State of Mexico, 45-year-old Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
The socialist PRI ruled the country under various names for more than 70 years until 2000, when it lost power to the conservative National Action Party.
Also running in July is the former mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, 58, for the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution.
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