Mexico party selects first woman presidential candidate (via BBC)

The Mexican voters choose a new president in July of this year (when the US political parties are just settling on their nominees). 

Current president Felipe Calderón is not eligible for a second term (Mexico's presidents are limited to a single six-year term).  He chose as his successor Ernesto Cordero (who was, up until September of 2011, the finance minister).

However, the PAN (National Action Party) did not agree, and chose a different candidate.  The current nominee of the PAN is Josefina Vazquez Mota , who was formerly the education minister. 

According to the BBC, though:

Opinion polls place her some distance behind the current frontrunner, Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate of the party which ruled Mexico for more than 70 years, the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party).  

And, it is most likely that the next president will be Enrique Peña Nieto from the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). 

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000, leads the pack and looks set to return under the slick candidacy of Enrique Peña Nieto, a former governor of Mexico’s most populous state.  

However, there’s been some corruption corruption associated with Mr. Peña Nieto:  

It was a mere $1.8 million, stuffed as brand new bills into two suitcases on a small jet travelling from the drug-raddled state of Veracruz to the home town of the man likely to be Mexico's next president.  Suspicious? Officers from Mexico's Attorney-General's office confiscated the money last weekend during a search of the plane, which landed in Toluca, capital of the state of Mexico. They arrested the two men transporting the cash, who said they were Veracruz officials but could not present any paperwork on where the money came from.  As rumours and speculation swirled, officials in the government of Veracruz acknowledged the money (25 million pesos) was theirs. They said they'd sent it to a publicity agency to pay for promotions for a carnival.  

It happens in the US, too.

It happens in France.

It happens in Australia.

It happens in the UK, though it's been illegal since 1275...

AND because Elections ought to be free, the King commandeth upon great Forfeiture, that [no Man] by Force of Arms, nor by Malice, or menacing, shall disturb any to make free Election.