Jose Antonio Meade Takes New Welfare Ministry Post, May Augur Presidency Bid Reuters
go to original September 1, 2015

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto last week shifted his foreign minister, Jose Antonio Meade, into a key welfare ministry, a move that could provide the experienced 46-year-old with a platform to mount a presidential bid in 2018.

Meade also served as finance and energy minister in the previous government, and could be an alternative candidate to the man currently expected to front the ruling party's bid to replace Pena Nieto in 2018, Manlio Fabio Beltrones.

Meade will front the Social Development Ministry, an arm of government that is viewed by political insiders as a useful springboard for presidential tilts. The ministry handles welfare spending across the still heavily impoverished country.

He will be replaced by Claudia Ruiz Massieu in the foreign ministry, who had previously served as tourism minister.

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Related: Meade Says For Now He Is Focused on Social Development, Not on 2018 Elections (El Universal)

Related: Peña Nieto's Cabinet Changes Strengthen Luis Videgaray's Position for 2018 Presidential Election (Mexico Voices)

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