The Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) has picked Enrique Pena Nieto as their candidate to run for president in Mexico's 2012 election. He was governor of the State of Mexico and now has decided at aged 45 to become a presidential candidate. Enrique has prepared for politics with a law degree and an MBA.
Peña Nieto has been a member of PRI since 1984. He learned the ropes by being an instructor in PRI's Electoral Training Center and a Coordinator for the party's Parliamentary Group in the LV Legislature. He also functioned as Chairman of the Political Coordination Board of the same legislature.
He was involved in the Mexican State government from the 90's up until 2002. While there, he was Government Administration Secretary, President of the Directive Council for the Social Security Institute, President of the Internal Council of Health Institute and Vice President of the Government Board for Integral Family Development System He was also able to gain membership in the National Institute of Public Administration and the Administrative Council for Decentralized Public Agencies.
Enrique Pena Nieto has shown his versatility by also working as a political advisor to PRI National. His long term dedication to the party has paid off with his elevation to position of presidential candidate. Subsequently, Pena Nieto made his strategic move towards electoral positions.
He knows the process well since he has already nominated candidates for the governorship of Mexico, in 2004. There were many candidates Nieto had to pass in order to grab the nomination: Guillermo González Martínez, Gustavo Cárdenas Monroy, Jaime Vázquez Castillo, Eduardo Bernal Martínez, Fernando Alberto García Cuevas, Cuauhtémoc García Ortega, Isidro Pastor Medrano, Enrique Jacob Rocha, Héctor Luna de la Vega and Carlos Hank Rhon. He became a gubernatorial candidate of the PRI in February 2005.
Voting was on July 3, 2005. He was a clear winner with 49 percent of the vote. A crowd of 5,000 people came out to watch his inauguration on September 15, 2005.
His main focus when he took over was the environment, energy reform and sustainable development and the acceleration of educational reform in support of youth empowerment and employment generation. A true politician, he proved himself extremely capable of handling conflict within the party. The state's economy, housing and agriculture business all benefited from his time in office.
He waited until the end of his term to run for the presidency. Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Nieto's only opponent, has chosen not to run after all. Beltrone quits Nieto fits.
Despite his seemingly meteoric rise to power, Pena Nieto is considered to be the next president of Mexico. He is waging political war with his own presidential polls against his opponents, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist PRD party and Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling party PAN. July 1, 2012, will mark a new era in politics for Mexico, when the people will elect a new President.
The PRI hopes to regain the Presidency through this popular former governor of Mexico state. Mexico has always called their head of state president, but truthfully, men who were more like dictators have ruled Mexico, and Enrique Pena Nieto hopes to change all that. Pena Nieto wants to develop Mexico into the nation it ought to be, a country with great natural resources and good people who are willing and able to work who should not be afraid and who have to leave in order to survive, but let's face it, Nieto has gotten where he is with the help of many people who he too will probably owe favors....good luck Mexico!
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