Mexico's ruling party on Saturday picked veteran politician Clara Brugada to be its candidate for Mexico City mayor, placing her in a strong position to win the election next June. Brugada could become the second woman in a row to be elected as mayor of the Mexican capital if her campaign for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) is successful. New gender parity rules on political representation in Mexico secured the nomination for the 60-year-old Brugada, even though the capital's former chief of police Omar Garcia Harfuch comfortably defeated her in polling commissioned by the party.
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