Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera has joined an early group of presidential hopefuls and left the door open for an historic run as an independent in the 2018 race. “I want to be president,” Mancera, the mega-city’s 49-year-old former chief prosecutor, told Milenio television late Monday. Mancera was elected mayor in 2012 under the banner of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) but he is not a member of it, giving him the option to run as an independent. “You have to think about what’s best for Mexico,” Mancera said. Independents were able to run for office for the first time in a June 7 midterm vote, resulting in the historic election of Jaime “El Bronco” Rodriguez as governor of Nuevo Leon, the first without a party affiliation. An avid runner and yoga buff, Mancera said his experience as prosecutor was like “an intensive, 24-hour per day course for 365 days a year” that prepared him to handle Mexico’s drug-related security problems. Mancera is ...
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