LF: Pena Nieto Wins Mexican Presidential Election

Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto speaks to supporters at his party's headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico, July 2, 2012.

Voters in Mexico have chosen to bring the country's once dominant political party back into power by electing Enrique Pena Nieto as their next president.

According to the preliminary results that still must be validated, Pena Nieto had 38 percent of Sunday's vote to beat former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had 31 percent.

On Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama called Pena Nieto to congratulate him and offer U.S. support in meeting mutual goals.

Who is Enrique Peña Nieto?

A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) since 1984
Drew national attention as governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011
Built his reputation by making "pledges" to the State of Mexico, focusing on public works and infrastructure improvement
Ranked among country's most handsome politicians
Married Televisa soap star Angelica Rivera in 2010
Admitted that he had affairs and fathered two children during his first marriage to Monica Pretelini Saenz

Pena Nieto said in an address to his supporters that Mexicans have voted for a change in direction, but he vowed to keep pressure on the cartels.

“The fight against crime will continue with a new strategy to reduce violence and protect the lives of Mexicans,” he said. “Let it be clear, with organized crime there will be no pacts or truce.”

Barry Carr, a longtime Mexico analyst at Australia’s Latrobe University, told VOA that many Mexicans believe Pena Nieto’s party has “always been close” to the cartels and that he is in the best position to strike a deal to stabilize the killings.

“I think that we may see, not publicly, but I think we may see an attempt – and I think this is what a lot of Mexicans want – and that we may see the scale of the killings reduced,” he said. “In other words there may be an implicit deal being done under which there will be less emphasis on pursuing militarily or by police the drug cartels, and there will be an attempt to persuade the drug cartels to reduce the level of killing both of themselves and of other individuals.”

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The big question... Will Obama bow low enough to lick his boots? Romney, Boehner, Reid?

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Federalizing and militarizing police functions in the name of fighting the "war on drugs" was Calderon's undoing.