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Former congresswomen and education minister in Mexico Vasquez Mota aged 51 has embraced her role as Mexico's first female presidential candidate for a major party. She currently trails the leader at the polls but has stated she does not hesitate to use the gender card at certain times. Vasquez Mota must tread on a fine line because the party she represents the National Action Party (PAN) is very conservative on many social issues considered important to women. She has made it clear that she is hewed to the heavily Catholic PAN's opposition to abortion and gay marriage. Another obstacle to her victory is the current unpopularity with the government with the PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto leading in the polls by a double digit margin. She will have to formulate a new strategy confronting drug cartels than Calderon's criticized military strategy. Mexico already has one of the highest participation rates of congresswomen in the representative body of the country so their is already a high sense of feminism.
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