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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2005 
Government Offers Security for Candidates
 Wire services
| | Front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador has filed complaints over death threats. |
The government has always and will continue to offer security for presidential candidates who want it, the presidential spokesman said Wednesday, a day after the frontrunner's campaign complained that he had received death threats.
"The government has always offered security for the candidates, and the candidates are free to accept it or not," spokesman Rubén Aguilar told a news conference.
The finance coordinator for the campaign of former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the leftleaning Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), said Tuesday that López Obrador had received death threats through the Internet.
The coordinator, Federico Arreola, pointed the finger at members of President Vicente Fox's conservative National Action Party (PAN) in Fox's home state of Guanajuato.
He said he filed a complaint with the attorney general's office in Mexico City and sent a letter explaining the situation to the federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) as well.
Aguilar refused to comment on the specific accusation, but said if a crime had been committed it would be up to the appropriate authorities to investigate.
López Obrador has led voter preference polls leading up to the July 2, 2006 presidential elections for more than a year.
Under Mexican law, the president of Mexico's autonomous Federal Electoral Institute may request security on behalf of presidential candidates once the candidates are officially nominated. |
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