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( January 2018 ) Mexican general election, 2018 ← 2012 1 July 2018 2024 → Candidate Ricardo Anaya Andrés Manuel López Obrador Party PAN MORENA Alliance For Mexico to the Front Together We Will Make History Home state Querétaro Tabasco Candidate José Antonio Meade Jaime Rodríguez Calderón Party PRI Independent Alliance Everyone for Mexico None Home state Mexico City Nuevo León Incumbent President Enrique Peña Nieto PRI Mexico This article is part of a series on the politics and government of Mexico Constitution Law Constitution ( history ) Human rights LGBT rights Law Abortion Labor Nationality Capital punishment Life imprisonment Gun politics Executive President ( list ) Enrique Peña Nieto Federal government Cabinet Legislative Congress ( current ) Senate Chamber of Deputies Federal electoral districts Judiciary Supreme Court of Justice Federal Electoral Tribunal Administrative divisions States Governors Municipalities Elections Recent major elections General : 2006 2012 2018 Legislative : 2003 2009 2015 Gubernatorial : 2010 Federal Electoral Institute Political parties Institutional Revolutionary National Action Democratic Revolution Labor Party Ecologist Green Citizens ' Movement New Alliance Foreign relations Other countries Atlas General elections are scheduled to be held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters will elect a new president to serve a five year and ten months term ( reduced by two months due to an inauguration date change starting in 2024 ), 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. Incumbent president Enrique Peña Nieto is not eligible for a second term according to Mexico 's constitution. The same was true for members of the legislature elected in previous elections, so all members of Congress will be newly elected. However, because of the political reform of 2014, the members of the legislature elected on this date will be the first allowed to run for re-election in subsequent elections. The National Electoral Institute ( INE ) officially declared the process started on 8 September 2017. It is said to be ' the biggest election in Mexican history ' because of the number of public charges in dispute, and also because the same day of the general elections there are going to be local elections in 30 out of 32 states. Contents 1 Electoral system 2 Presidential candidates 2.1 Everyone for Mexico ( Todos por México ) ( PRI, PVEM, and Nueva Alianza ) coalition 2.1. 1 Nominee 2.2 For Mexico to the Front ( Por México al Frente ) ( PAN, PRD, and MC ) coalition 2.2. 1 Nominee 2.3 Together We Will Make History ( Juntos Haremos Historia ) ( MORENA, PT, and PES ) coalition 2.3. 1 Nominee 2.4 Independents 3 Opinion polls 4 Campaigns 4.1 Timeline 4.1. 1 January 4.1. 2 February 4.1. 3 March 4.1. 4 April and May 4.2 Promises and proposals 5 Controversies 5.1 Foreign intervention 5.1. 1 The PRI and Cambridge Analytica 5.1. 2 Allegations of United States and Russian intervention 5.2 Possibility of election tampering 6 References 7 External links Electoral system The country 's president is elected by plurality in a single round of voting. The 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by two methods ; 300 are elected in single - member constituencies by first - past - the - post voting, with the remaining 200 elected out of five regional constituencies by proportional representation, with seats allocated using the simple quotient and largest remainder method. No party is allowed to hold more than 300 seats. The 128 members of the Senate are also elected by two methods, with 96 elected in 32 three - seat constituencies based on the states and 32 elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation. In the three - seat constituencies, two seats are allocated to the party receiving the highest number of votes and one seat to the party receiving the second - highest number of votes. Presidential candidates Everyone for Mexico ( Todos por Mexico ) ( PRI, pvem, and nueva alianza ) coalition Main article : Todos por México On 9 August 2017, the PRI loosened its requirements for presidential candidates, eliminating the requirement that candidates have been party members for 10 years, as well as allowing non-party figures to lead the party. This move was thought to benefit finance secretary José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, who is not a member of the PRI, as well as education secretary Aurelio Nuño Mayer, whose membership length has been questioned. Meade was considered the favorite, because while the PRI has been dogged by scandal and controversy, Meade was been personally unaffected. On 27 November, Meade resigned from cabinet and announced his intention to be the PRI 's candidate in the upcoming election. He quickly received the support of President Peña Nieto and PRI - linked institutions such as the CTM union. With no challengers, Meade became the presumptive nominee. On 18 February 2018, the PRI held its convention of delegates, where Meade was formally selected as the party 's candidate for president. Due to the circumstances of Meade 's candidacy, critics likened his selection to the PRI 's historical practice of dedazo ( `` tap of the finger '' ), where presidents hand - picked their successor. The coalition was initially named `` Citizen Meade for Mexico '' ( `` Meade Ciudadano por México '' ), until the INE deemed it unconstitutional to include a candidate 's name within the coalition 's name, on the grounds that the presidential candidate would effectively receive advertising from from every piece of campaign advertising of the coalition used for local candidates. As a result, the coalition changed its name to `` Everyone for Mexico ''. Nominee José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of Social Development, and Secretary of Finance and Public Credit during the Peña Nieto administration ; Secretary of Finance and Public Credit and Secretary of Energy during the Felipe Calderón administration. Former member of cabinet José Antonio Meade Kuribreña from Mexico City For Mexico to the front ( por Mexico al Frente ) ( PAN, PRD, and MC ) coalition Main article : Por México al Frente It has been announced that the center - right National Action Party, and the center - left parties of PRD, and MC, both of whom nominated Andrés Manuel López Obrador twice to the elections of 2006 and 2012, will go together in an electoral alliance for the election, this in order to create a broader front and defeat Mexico 's ruling party, PRI, and also defeat the election front - runner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. On 5 September, the front was officially registered before the INE. On 8 December the coalition changed its name to `` Por México al Frente ''. The next day, PAN president, Ricardo Anaya Cortés, resigned from his position and expressed his intentions to be the candidate for the alliance. Meanwhile, former first lady, Margarita Zavala, submitted her resignation from the PAN on 6 October, having been a member for 33 years, and registered as an independent candidate six days later. She sought the presidency through an independent bid, but withdrew her bid on 16 May 2018. Nominee Ricardo Anaya Cortés, former president of the National Action Party. Former president of the National Action Party Ricardo Anaya Cortés from Querétaro Together We will make history ( juntos haremos historia ) ( MORENA, PT, and PES ) coalition Main article : Juntos Haremos Historia On 12 December Andrés Manuel López Obrador registered as the presumptive nominee for MORENA and submitted his resignation as president of the party. This is López Obrador 's third attempt at becoming president of Mexico ; the previous two attempts were with the PRD. After the 2012 presidential election, López Obrador left to found MORENA. This will be MORENA 's first presidential election. Joining MORENA in the Together We Will Make History coalition is the left - wing Labor Party and the right - wing Social Encounter Party. Nominee Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former Head of Government of Mexico City. Former Head of Government of Mexico City Andrés Manuel López Obrador from Tabasco Independents For the first time in Mexico 's modern democratic history, candidates were allowed to run for the presidency as independents. Several people announced their intention to contest the election as an independent candidate. Margarita Zavala, lawyer, former deputy and wife of former president Felipe Calderón had originally intended to run as the PAN nominee ; however, on 6 October, she left the party and launched an independent bid. Explaining her decision, she said that the formation of For Mexico to the Front meant there would be no internal PAN selection, denying her a chance to be a candidate. Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, the independent governor of Nuevo Leon, also announced his candidacy, as did Senator Armando Ríos Piter. The National Indigenous Congress announced on 28 May 2017 the election of María de Jesús Patricio Martínez as their spokeswoman and indigenous representative for the 2018 general election, aiming to obtain an independent candidacy. Only Zavala gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot ; however, on 10 April the Electoral Court accepted an appeal from Rodríguez and ordered the National Electoral Institute to register him as candidate. On 16 May Zavala announced that she would suspend her campaign. Opinion polls Main article : Opinion polling for the Mexican general election, 2018 Historical trend of voting intentions for the candidates for the Mexican presidency in 2018. Campaigns Timeline January As in the 2006 and 2012 elections, the 2018 campaign has featured numerous accusations and attack ads directed at the leftist frontrunner candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( López Obrador ), who will be contesting the elections with the support of his party MORENA ( `` Movimiento Regeneración Nacional '', `` National Regeneration Movement '' ). A Red Scare - like campaign has been used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador victory would turn Mexico into `` another Venezuela ''. In a speech, PRI president Ochoa Reza stated that `` if the people from MORENA like Venezuela so much, they should just go and live there ''. It is believed that the PRI has hired Venezuelan right - wing political strategist JJ Rendón to work in their campaign, as he stated in January that he would do `` everything within the law to prevent López Obrador from becoming President '' ; Rendón had previously worked for the PRI during Peña Nieto 's 2012 presidential campaign. In January, former president Felipe Calderón shared a video on his social media, in which a Venezuelan citizen living in Mexico warned voters not to vote for López Obrador, as he would put Mexico in the `` path to ruin '' like Chavismo had done in her country. It later surfaced that the woman, whose name is Carmen Martilez, is an actress who previously had uploaded a video in which she asked for street vendors to be `` exterminated ''. In that same month, the PRI began to claim that López Obrador 's campaign is being supported by `` Venezuelan and Russian interests ''. López Obrador dismissed the accusations and later joked about them, calling himself `` Andrés Manuelovich ''. Later in January, citizens across the country received phone calls originating in the city of Puebla, in which a pre-recorded audio warned them not to vote for López Obrador because he has supposedly agreed to sell the Mexican oil to `` the Russians ''. The MORENA representant in Puebla has asked for an investigation into said phone calls. In March, telephone company Axtel tracked the number that made the calls, revealing it was a number the government of Puebla ( whose governor is from the PAN ), had hired from them. Puebla 's government denied the accusations. Also in January, López Obrador uploaded a video on his social media asking president Peña Nieto and PRI president Ochoa Reza to `` calm down '', and advised them to take some `` López Obradordipine ''. A jingle entitled `` Movimiento Naranja '', which was recorded for the political party Movimiento Ciudadano ( which is part of the `` Por México al Frente '' coalition alongside the PAN and the PRD ) and performed by an indigenous child called Yuawi, became viral and Yuawi turned into a celebrity overnight. Drawing on its success, the pre-candidate for the Frente, Ricardo Anaya recorded a video in which he performs the song with Yuawi. PRI candidate José Antonio Meade was accused of plagiarism when it was noted that one of his ads, in which he criticizes a `` populist '' speech on TV, was identical to an ad that had been used by Justin Trudeau when he became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013. February Later in February, PRI 's Enrique Ochoa made a tweet, where he referred to PRI politicians who defected to MORENA as `` Prietos que no aprientan ( Dark - skinned people who ca n't get a hold ) '' while trying to make a pun on the word PRI - etos ( because MORENA is a synonym for prietos ), the expression was criticized leading Ocho Reza to quickly delete the tweet as it was interpreted to be racist. Aristegui Noticias published that Ochoa Reza apologized, and also criticized the insensitive expression, additionally commenting that the part `` que ya no aprietan ( who can not hold ) '' could also be interpreted as misogynistic due to being a double entendre referring to women in relation to the number of sexual relations they have had in their lifetime. Ochoa Reza 's tweet apologized to dark - skinned people but not to women. Later Sinembargo.mx revealed that Jose Antonio Meade justified Enrique Ochoa 's usage of the expression, by saying : `` uno se exceede y es natural ( one exceeds and is natural ) '' and saying that his quick apology talked positively about him. March By March, the General Procuracy of the Republic ( PGR ) made official an investigation regarding Ricardo Anaya laundering money. Regarding the investigation, ex-chief of FEPADE ( the Mexican government 's branch focused on political crimes ), Santiago Nieto, whom the previous October had been controversially removed from his job as chief of FEPADE, coincidentally right after starting an investigation regarding illicit campaign money from the 2012 presidential campaign, received by Peña Nieto and would be president of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya from the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht. The ex-chief of FEPADE, said that the accusations towards Anaya were minor in comparison to Odebretch and Peña Nieto scandal, adding also the same opinion about the money lost by SEDESOL, to corrupt governors from the PRI such as Javier Duarte, all while Jose Antonio Meade was the man in charge of SEDESOL ( the scandal is known as `` La Estafa Maestra ( The Master Robbery ) '' and about $435 million pesos were lost ). The same week the PRI legislators were criticized for voting towards stopping the investigation of Odebretch against the wishes of Mexican people and organizations against corruption such as `` Mexicanos contra la corrupcion ( Mexicans against Corruption ) ''. The investigation about Odebretch against Pemex leader at the time, Lozoya, was legally stopped after a judge controversially ordered it days after. Santiago Nieto said that the PGR was being used as tool by Peña Nieto 's government to tamper elections and benefit Meade by removing Anaya from the race, complaining that it was not neutral the manner in whom the law enforcing organizations had made more efforts to investigate Anaya in a month than towards investigating Peña Nieto 's Odebretch money and Meade 's SEDESOL lost money in the last six years. Going as far as saying the PGR and FEPADE were only attacking the rivals of the PRI, and saying the organizations were not being neutral. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Santiago Nieto would later reveal that Peña Nieto 's government tried to bribe him to keep him silent, which he refused saying `` Sorry, but I ca n't receive any money from Peña Nieto. '' He received menaces through phone messages with the words `` Death follows you '' and `` Words of advice : stay out of Trouble '', and as a consequence, he revealed to fear for the life of himself and his family. Additionally as of 2018, it should be noted, that many of the politicians of the PRI political party who supported Peña Nieto during his presidential campaign would be latter declared criminals by the Mexican government ( some already elected, while others were campaigning concurrently with Peña Nieto, and would be elected ), near the end of Peña Nieto 's time as president ; a total of 22 state ex-governors all members from the PRI had been accused of misuse of public funding and deviations of money ( with some money speculated to have been deviated towards the PRI ), only five were sent to jail, with PGR receiving criticism for not investigating further. Among the most prominent criminals were : Tomas Yarrington from Tamaulipas ( along his predecessor Eugenio Hernandez Flores ), Javier Duarte from Veracruz, César Duarte Jáquez from Chihuahua ( no family relation between both Duarte ), and Roberto Borge from Quintana Roo, along their unknown multiple allies who enabled their corruption, which while, although Peña Nieto has not been found to be an ally of them, by being part of the same political party have severely impacted negatively on Peña Nieto 's image as president, along the one of the PRI. And also while not a member of the PRI at the time, Meade 's image also received damage because much of the money was lost while he was leading SEDESOL ( Secretaria de Desarrollo Social, `` Social Development Secretary '' ), the government organization which supervises the resources received by each state. Despite the overwhelming evidence against the aforementioned Cesar Duarte, in March 2018, the PGR found him innocent of any crime. The successor governor Javier Corral from the PAN, who previously fought against the Televisa law, gave a similar opinion to Santiago Nieto, saying the PGR was being used to protect the allies of Peña Nieto and the PRI, and attack their rivals. López Obrador said that not preceding towards Duarte, is one of the main reasons Mexicans lost their faith in the PRI, saying the few ex-governors declared criminals were only to simulate they care. April and May After Meade decided to change his strategy, and due to his poor reception, Ochoa Reza left his position as president of the PRI on 2 May. On 16 May, Margarita Zavala suspended her presidential campaign. The previously mentioned Santiago Nieto decided to join AMLO 's campaign, with both promising to continue the investigation on the scandal about EPN, the PRI and Odebretch. While, Cesar Duarte, dissapeared before being incarcerated, and has since been declared a criminal by the PGR. Promises and proposals López Obrador promised to end many of the benefits received by ex-presidents, namely ending the lifelong pension they receive.. He added that he would redirect the money saved to be used to help senior citizens. Zavala also said she would also attempt to end the practice, though she had not decided how to use the money saved, while Meade and Anaya said they would keep the practice going. Anaya promised to implement a basic income for Mexican citizens, Anaya said Nobel prize - winning economist Milton Friedman supported the idea. While well received, El Economista criticized how Anaya announced it, and called the idea populist. Meade proposed to create an office that would track the unique needs of each individual Mexican citizen, in what he would call `` Registro Unico de Necesidades de Cada Persona ( Unique Register of the Necessities of Each Person ) ''. Mexican citizens on social media mocked the idea as absurd and impossible to develop, comparing it to writing letters to Santa Claus or just plainly asking for miracles. Meade has supported Peña Nieto 's energy reforms, saying that `` everyone wins with gasolinazo '', and announcing that if he wins he intends to continue it. López Obrador promised to end the gasolinazos by building two new fuel refineries in Mexico, that would permit more petroleum to be processed into gasoline within Mexico, lowering the price by not outsourcing the job to other countries. Anaya promised to investigate and do everything to make sure President Peña Nieto is sent to jail for his aforementioned multiple presidential scandals, with López Obrador agreeing and suggesting to up the ante by also investigating every living former president. On 26 January, López Obrador accused the International Monetary Fund of being accomplices of corruption in Mexican politics and claimed that its policies are in part responsible for poverty, unemployment, and violence in the country. López Obrador promised that if he wins the presidency, Mexico will follow `` its own agenda. '' Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called for a change in security strategy and offered the controversial proposal of giving amnesty for drug dealers as a way to combat the drug cartels. During a debate in April Jaime Rodríguez Calderón said `` We have to cut off the hands of those who rob ( in public service ). It 's that simple. '' he later explained that it was intended to be applied to both criminals and government functionaries involved in acts of corruption citing the application of this measure in Singapore as an example to reduce corruption and violence. `` El Bronco '' was trending ahead of the other candidates on Twitter during the debate. Jaime Rodríguez later proposed to bring back the death penalty ( Currently abolished in Mexico and enforced by last time in 1961 ) for drug traffickers, hijackers, infanticides and serial killers. Controversies Foreign intervention There have been accusations of other countries trying to intervene in the Mexican electoral process. The PRI and Cambridge Analytica After the Facebook scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, in April 2018, Forbes published information from the British news program Channel 4 News that had mentioned the existence of proof revealing ties between the PRI and Cambridge Analytica, suggesting a `` modus operandi '' similar to the one in the United States. The info said they worked together at least until January. An investigation was requested. Allegations of United states and Russian intervention The previous, April 2017, then US Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly stated that the election of a left - wing president in Mexico `` would not be good for America or Mexico ''. The statement was widely believed to be a reference to López Obrador, the leftist, frontrunner candidate, and created controversy in Mexico, as it seemed to be an attempt to influence the election against him. In December 2017, US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster claimed that Russia has launched a campaign to `` influence Mexico 's 2018 presidential election and stir up division '', without defining the methods of the supposed meddling, or indicating which would be the candidate favored by the Kremlin. The Russian government has denied the claims. PRI president Enrique Ochoa Reza claimed that `` Russian and Venezuelan interests '' are supporting López Obrador 's campaign. López Obrador has responded that Ochoa 's declarations are part of a smear campaign against him, and later posted a video on his social media, where he joked about the claims and called himself `` Andres Manuelovich ''. Guatemalan right - wing commentator Gloria Álvarez has embarked on a tour through Mexico, calling López Obrador a `` dangerous populist '' and urging Mexican citizens not to vote for him. She was invited to a PAN legislators assembly on 31 January, where she criticized the alliance with the PRD, which she called `` a party just like MORENA ''. US Senators Bob Menendez and Marco Rubio asked US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to `` fight Russian meddling '' in the Mexican elections. On 2 February during a summit in Mexico, Tillerson stated that Mexico should `` beware the Russian interference ''. Dr. Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center at Rice University noted that there has been no evidence of actual Russian tampering in the Mexican electoral process, and considered the accusations `` absurd '' given that the Trump administration `` will not admit Russia interfered in the US election ''. Possibility of election tampering Bloomberg warned about the possibility of the PRI committing electoral fraud, with Tony Payan, director of the Houston 's Mexico Center at Rice University 's Baker Institute suggesting that both vote buyout and computer hackings were possible, citing irregularities in the 1988 electoral process. Bloomberg 's article also suggested Meade could be also receiving unfair help from the over-budget amounts of money spent in publicity by incumbent president Enrique Peña Nieto ( who also campaigned with the PRI ). Additionally, Meade has spent more pre-campaign propaganda budget than Lopez Obrador and Anaya together, while failing to report where his budget came from, while in contrast, Lopez Obrador has attended the most events while spending the fewest money and successfully reporting better than his rivals where he obtained the resources to pay such events. During 2017, the PRI had already faced serious allegations of electoral fraud, concerning the election of Peña Nieto 's cousin Alfredo del Mazo Maza as Governor of the state of Mexico. Despite the official vote results given by the INE ( Electoral National Institute ) giving the win to Del Mazo, the election was marred by irregularities including reports of vote - buying, spending beyond legal campaign finance limits, and electoral counts that gave del Mazo extra votes that awarded the election to him. 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Question: who is the president of mexico in 2018
Answer: Enrique Peña Nieto