The Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) has picked Enrique Pena Nieto as their candidate to run for president in Mexico's 2012 election. At 45, he is a young presidential candidate, but has experience of an older politician. Even though he has political connections, he is a lawyer with a master's in business.
He helped lay the groundwork for his political career when he became a member of the PRI in 1984. Initially, he worked as an instructor in PRI's Electoral Training Center and later on became Coordinator for the party's Parliamentary Group in the LV Legislature. He also held the job as Chairman of the Political Board of the same legislature.
If you count the decade of the 90's to the year 2002, Nieto was working for the state government of Mexico for at least 10, maybe 12, years. During his stint in the state government of Mexico, he acted as, 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 During this period, he also secured membership to the National Institute of Public Administration and the Administrative Council for Decentralized Public Agencies.
Nieto worked as a political advisor to PRI. All of his duties helped to prepare him for his future as a candidate. His move from state government to presidential candidate has been seamless.
In 2004, he played a role in nominating candidates for governor of the state of Mexico. He beat other candidates in the nomination process, namely 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. The PRI nominated him as their gubernatorial candidate, in February 2005.
The race was over on July 3, 2005. He won by a landslide with a vote of 49 percent. Five thousand people watched him become the official governor of the state of Mexico on September 15, 2005 at the Morelos Theater in Toluca.
The environment, energy reform and sustainable development and the acceleration of educational reform in support of youth empowerment and employment generation were his priorities when he became governor. A true politician, he proved himself extremely capable of handling conflict within the party. Positive advances with respect to the state's economy, housing and agriculture sectors were achieved during his term.
He closed the door on his job as governor and opened the door to the presidency. Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Nieto's only opponent, has chosen not to run after all. Beltrone's decision not to run has enabled the PRI party to get behind Nieto one hundred percent.
Despite controversies, Pena Nieto is often referred to as the next president of Mexico. It is no surprise that Pena Nieto has cleverly held his own political polls to discredit 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. His concern and good work for the people of Mexico have laid the groundwork for the perception of Pena Nieto to be that of a democratic president unlike past presidents who were more like dictators. 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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