Furious final day of campaigning before Mexico's elections
Source: Associated Press
Maria Verza and Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press
Updated 10:10 pm, Wednesday, June 27, 2018
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's legal campaign season wrapped up Wednesday as the candidates made final appeals to voters ahead of Sunday's elections, with leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador the clear favorite to win the presidency.
Lopez Obrador made a jubilant entrance into Mexico City's Azteca Stadium for his final campaign event, telling the cheering crowd of nearly 100,000 people that there is "a contagious and vibrant joy because you find them indicating that we are going to win!"
He pledged not to fight with the U.S. government and said he will reduce the poverty and joblessness that forces Mexicans to emigrate. He also promised to cut the president's salary in half and eliminate the country's secret service and intelligence agency.
The No. 2 in the polls, conservative Ricardo Anaya, spoke at a rally in the conservative state of Guanajuato, while ruling party candidate Jose Antonio Meade held events in the northern states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
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when a "friend" of his wife's built them an enormously expensive house, and it looked as if he would be ruined by that scandal. But, nooooo!
(They can change the colors of the rooms by pushing buttons.)
""In this case I recognize that I made a mistake. Although I conducted myself according to the law, this error affected my family, hurt the presidential investiture and damaged the trust in the government.
"In my own flesh I felt the irritation of Mexicans, I understand it perfectly, that is why I humbly ask your forgiveness, and I reiterate my sincere and profound apology for the outrage and indignation that I caused them," he said yesterday during the promulgation of the new anti-corruption system.
According to the head of the federal executive, he is more convinced and determined to fight corruption.
It should be noted that hours before this pronouncement, Virgilio Andrade, Secretary of the Public Service, submitted his resignation. Andrade was responsible for conducting the investigation of this 2014 scandal."
http://dominio.fm/reconoce-pena-nieto-error-investigacion-la-casa-blanca/
The life of a right-wing public servant. Very rewarding, apparently!
What a shame the news about the election bribes didn't come out in time. Rotten little Peña Nieto IS as crooked as people suspected.
What a shame there are so MANY crooked people in government, they protect him, just like Argentina, etc., etc, and here.
Have wondered if the stupid people who show up to applaud Trump's rallies get paid. I think at the beginning, at least, they did.
