Enrique Peña Nieto is the official presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI to the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections. Prior to the announcement of his presidential candidacy, the 45-year old Mexican politician served as governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011. Although politics is in his blood, so to speak, he has nevertheless studied, and on his own, acquired degrees in both law and business.
He became familiar with the PRI when he became a member in 1984. When he started with the PRI, he was and instructor and later became Coordinator for the party's Parliamentary Group in the LV Legislation. He also functioned as Chairman of the Political Coordination 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. 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 became affiliated with the National Institute of Public Administration and the Administrative Council for Decentralized Public Agencies.
Nieto worked as a political advisor to PRI. 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 helped pick the governor of the state of Mexico in 2004. Because of his experience, he was able to win against such candidates as, 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.
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 elected governor's political agenda include advocacies on environment, energy reform and sustainable development and the acceleration of educational reform in support of youth empowerment and employment generation. The fact that he was able to accomplish anything within a party filled with conflict, speaks to his political capability. His popularity comes from his ability to help the people with boosts in the economy, housing sector and agricultural business.
He waited until the end of his term to run for the presidency. Oddly, Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, his only opponent decided not to run. With Beltrone out of the way, Nieto had no one to stop him from obtaining the nomination.
Despite his seemingly meteoric rise to power, Pena Nieto is considered to be the next president of Mexico. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist PRD party and Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling party PAN are fair game, and Pena Nieto hasn't wasted any time to discredit them and now holds made up political polls where, quite naturally, he is the winner. The official election for Mexico's 80 million people will be held on July 1 of this year.
The PRI hopes to regain the Presidency through this popular former governor of Mexico state. Enrique Pena Nieto promises to be more democratic than previous dictators. He expects to renew hope among Mexicans and urge them to build a better nation and a country of peace.
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