By Eliane Portillo

During a debate on Tuesday, the three aspiring National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidates, Ernesto Cordero, Josefina Vázquez Mota and Santiago Creel, said that the blue party’s main objective is to impede the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) return to the presidential residence of Los Pinos.

In the Manuel Gómez Marín Auditorium, at the PAN’s facilities in Mexico City, the pre-candidates presented their political platforms and proposals. According to the PAN national leader, Gustavo Madero, the objective of the debate was to engage in discussion in an environment of peace and impartiality. Creel said the PAN cannot afford to let the PRI snag the presidential seat again and stated that the PAN should make it its mission to ensure that the country does not go back to the political ways of old.

Vázquez Mota pointed out the importance of unity and noted that the real adversaries are not the other PAN two pre-candidates, but those who have already been named official presidential candidates and will surely have their names appear on the ballot.

Cordero noted that the three pre-candidates’ proposals were well received by PAN sympathizers and that the latter now have the tools to choose their official presidential candidate as stated in the blue party’s statutes. PAN members will choose their official presidential representative once they see in one of us the one that has stood by the values of the party at all times and is fit to represent the PAN honorably,” he said.