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Mexico's first lady says she will seek presidency in 2006
EFE ^ | Feb 10

Posted on 02/10/2004 4:43:21 PM PST by Int

Mexico's first lady says she will seek presidency
Mexico City, Feb 10 (EFE).- First Lady Marta Sahagun's confirmation that she will seek the nation's presidency in 2006 has roiled the waters of Mexican politics and prompted a top jurist to say that if she does indeed become a candidate, her husband, incumbent Vicente Fox, should resign before the end of his term.

Asked in a television interview Monday night if she would run - a possibility much debated in the media and on the streets in recent weeks - Sahagun replied: "Speaking truthfully, as we say we should, the answer is, 'Yes, yes.'" The head of the University of Mexico's Legal Research Institute, Diego Valades, said Tuesday that if Sahagun plans to run for office, President Fox should step down six months before the elections, which are set for July 2006.
Noting that the fundamental law of the land is based on valid reasoning, the jurist noted that "there is both letter and logic in the Constitution. The logic is that situations of power should not be used to remain in power." Mexico's Constitution, which bans re-election, requires that senior-level officials who run for another office resign six months before the election, although it does not indicate what should be done when it is an incumbent's wife who wishes to seek public office.
Jurist Ignacio Burgoa weighed in, saying that although Valades might be right about the "spirit" of the Constitution, the basic law of the land does not prevent the first lady from running for president.
"The Constitution says nothing about it. It does not say anything about stepping down because relatives are running for office," he said.
The case is unprecedented in Mexico. No wife of a president, or a state governor for that matter, has ever tried to succeed him in office.
During the interview, Sahagun openly acknowledged that she intends to seek the governing National Action Party's (PAN) presidential nomination.
The conservative PAN's secretary-general, Manuel Espino, however, has expressed the opinion that it would not be "ethical" for Fox's wife to run for president.
Sahagun, who heads Vamos Mexico (Let's Go, Mexico), a charitable foundation, is thought to be the country's second most popular figure, right after Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the most leftist of the three major parties.
Meanwhile, Roberto Madrazo, president of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost the presidency to Fox after more than 70 years in power, predicts that the ones to beat in the 2006 presidential election will be Sahagun and Lopez Obrador. EFE lg/nj/mp


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fox; martasahagun; mrsfox; pan; prd; pri; sahagun; vicentefox
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To: thegreatbeast
"When we start bequeathing elected offices to family members than the republic is doomed!"

It's already happened.
21 posted on 02/10/2004 5:52:44 PM PST by optik_b (follow the money)
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To: optik_b
Yeah, first that John Adams and then his son John Quincy Adams, and then just 180 years later George Bush and then his son George Walker Bush. The Republic is doomed by this nepotism, I tell you!
22 posted on 02/10/2004 5:56:11 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Plus Benjamin Harrison (1888) was the grandson of William Henry Harrison (1840).
23 posted on 02/10/2004 6:05:26 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Democratshavenobrains
We have to stop this trend! We are turning into a Monarchy!
24 posted on 02/10/2004 6:07:16 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Int
In 2006 there will be more Mexicans in the US than in Mexico. She should wait until 2008 and run for president here (that will give us time to amend the Constitution).
25 posted on 02/10/2004 6:07:53 PM PST by autopsy
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To: Int
Maybe she'll be more effective than her (supposedly conservative) husband.

But maybe not. One of the reasons he lost a lot of credibility in the first place was for marrying her.

No good deed goes unpunished...
26 posted on 02/10/2004 6:17:53 PM PST by livius
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To: Int
Vincente will still be President by proxy
27 posted on 02/10/2004 6:23:17 PM PST by GeronL (www.ArmorforCongress.com ............... Support a FReeper for Congress)
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To: GulliverSwift
Please don't bring up Hilda's butt.

You would need a derrick or a winch. Or is that a derrick for the wench? It's so hard to keep track.
28 posted on 02/10/2004 6:32:08 PM PST by adam_az (Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
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To: Int
although [the Constituion] does not indicate what should be done when it is an incumbent's wife who wishes to seek public office.

Well if the Mexican Constitution is silent on such matters, don't try to make things up as you go along....

29 posted on 02/10/2004 7:58:11 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
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To: Int; gubamyster; Pro-Bush; FairOpinion; FITZ; moehoward; Nea Wood; Joe Hadenuf; sangoo; ...
BumPing!
30 posted on 02/10/2004 8:16:41 PM PST by JustPiper (Al-Qaeda has no return address - Close Our Borders !!!)
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To: Int
Don't cry for me,Ensenada.

Evita II coming to a third world hellhole near you.
31 posted on 02/10/2004 8:33:35 PM PST by exit82 (Toll free number for the Capitol switchboard:1-800-648-3516--let your reps in DC know what you think)
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To: plain talk
Actually, if Belinda Stronach gets the nomination for the Canadian conservative party leadership, we could see a simultaneous trio of North American female leaders very soon.
32 posted on 02/10/2004 8:34:03 PM PST by Int (Sins of the media: exaggeration and oversimplification)
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To: Int
What? Ol' Vicente meet his quota for exporting citizens?
33 posted on 02/10/2004 8:36:06 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Int
I don't think you folks get the big picture here - it's gonna be Hillary/Marta in '08 (yes, in americo). My predictions have always been correct in the past.
34 posted on 02/10/2004 8:36:37 PM PST by searchandrecovery (Justice is the final pillar to fall.)
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To: autopsy
Since Vicente Fox is so "concerned" about giving his residents of the U.S. the "right" to vote in Mexican elections, I'll be sure to request an absentee ballot in the Mexican elections. Let's see...I was taken to the U.S. when I was two months old, the illegitimate son of a married man who never recognized my existence. Oh yeah, and I'm on welfare and have a huge criminal record in the U.S. That sounds like the "heroic hardworking guest worker" that's right up Vince's alley! Vince "the conservative candidate" Fox will rush me a ballot so quick that it will be in the mail by the next day!

There's little difference between Fox's PAN and the PRI in Mexico. Both are socialist, but the PRI isn't so unabashed about it and AT LEAST you can BRIBE them! Vote PRI and end the Fox reign of big brother government, both in his country and in the U.S. No "conservative" would be caught dead promoting the kinds of things that he and Hillary Rodham Fox stand for.

35 posted on 02/10/2004 9:32:29 PM PST by BillyBoy (George Ryan deserves a long term...without parole.)
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To: JustPiper
Hillary's evil twin?
36 posted on 02/10/2004 10:01:10 PM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: Int
that it would not be "ethical" for Fox's wife to run for president.

Well that shouldn't stop her.

37 posted on 02/11/2004 6:23:47 AM PST by FITZ
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To: humblegunner
My impression would be that her vote could be had for a price.

Her marriage was --- her ex-husband wasn't so happy about the way she met Fox and dumped her family for him. Unlike Hillary she didn't marry "presidential material" the first time around, Marta only got that 2 years ago. She's one very ambitious woman.

38 posted on 02/11/2004 6:28:14 AM PST by FITZ
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To: Int
Ah geeze, the first lady president of the United States.
39 posted on 02/11/2004 7:29:56 AM PST by swampfox98 (Beyond 2004 - Chaos)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Don't forget the short-circuited attempt by the Kennedy clan.
40 posted on 02/11/2004 7:33:27 AM PST by elli1
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