Media Breakfast Briefing on Mexico's 2006 Elections28 March 2006
News Advisory:
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is hosting an on-the-record media breakfast briefing about Mexico's upcoming presidential elections. On July 2, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect a new president and congress for the first time since President Fox became the first opposition candidate to end 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Current polls give a lead to left-of- center candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD); however, both Felipe Calderon, of Fox's National Action Party (PAN), and Roberto Madrazo of the PRI remain close in the polls with a chance of winning in July.
As part of its ongoing activities on these elections, the Mexico Institute is hosting a full-day conference on March 31 to discuss possible outcomes and implications. At the private media breakfast prior to the conference, Alejandro Moreno, the head of polling for Reforma newspaper and a leading scholar of public opinion, will review the trends in the polls and discuss potential scenarios for the elections. He will provide a detailed profile of the issues that have proved most important during the campaign and appear to be influencing preferences in the election campaign. Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquen, a preeminent scholar and host of a popular television program on current events, will address the implications of the elections for Mexico's future governance. In particular, he will look at the platforms of the different candidates and how these may provide a shift in foreign, economic, and social policy. The moderator of the discussion will be Jacqueline Peschard, a former citizen counselor of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute and professor at the National University.
The Wilson Center's Mexico Institute also maintains an ongoing website on the Mexican elections which includes updates on breaking news, recent polls, and timely analysis of developments: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/mexicoelections
Dr. Alejandro Moreno is the editor of polling and public opinion at Reforma newspaper. He also is a professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), a private university. He is responsible for the World Values Survey in Mexico and has published extensively on Mexican values and public opinion.
Professor Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez is professor of law at ITAM University and host of the current affairs program "Entre Tres" on Azteca Television. He is an op-ed contributor to Reforma newspaper and the author of two books on Mexico's democratic transition.
Dr. Jacqueline Peschard is a professor of political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and served for seven years as a citizen counselor of the Federal Electoral Institute. She is a former public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a senior advisor to the Center's Mexico elections project. She contributes a regular op-ed article to El Universal newspaper.
WHAT: Media Breakfast Briefing on Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections
WHO:
Dr. Alejandro Moreno, editor of polling and public opinion, Reforma newspaper, and professor of political science, ITAM
Professor Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez, professor of law at ITAM and host of the program "Entre Tres" on TV Azteca
Dr. Jacqueline Peschard, former citizen counselor, Federal Electoral Institute and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (moderator)
WHEN: Friday, March 31, 2006 from 8:15 to 9:15 a.m.
WHERE: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 4th Floor Conference Room. The Woodrow Wilson Center is located in the Ronald Reagan Building at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. (Federal Triangle Station on Metro.)
Alejandro Moreno and Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez will provide media an opportunity to discuss the Mexican elections. Each will speak for approximately ten minutes, and the remaining time will be a Q&A session with the two speakers and moderator Jacqueline Peschard.
Reservations are required for this event -- please respond by noon on Thursday, March 30. Media are welcome to forward this invitation to other interested colleagues. Please RSVP to Lauren Crowley at lauren.crowley@wilsoncenter.org or 202-691-4268.
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