The four main candidates for Mexico's presidency, Enrique Peña Nieto, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Josefina Vazquez Mota and Gabriel Quadri attended Mexico's First Citizen Summit for Peace and Justice in Mexico's capital city.
The candidates had the opportunity to voice out the plans they would enact if elected president in order to transform Mexico and restore peace and justice within the Nation.
During the summit, Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI party candidate currently leading the presidential polls in Mexico, made a call to all political parties and citizens in Mexico to go beyond political differences and seek commonness to strengthen unity.
"Let's not fall into a climate of intolerance that goes against our own democracy," the candidate said in his speech. Peña Nieto repeated that if he assumes presidency in Mexico, he would assume his office with a democratic vision and would leave behind the party's political ways of the past.
"I am committed to a democratic presidency and invariably ensuring freedom of expression and the media to give transparency to government advertising space," he said according to Excelsior in Mexico.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, second runner up in presidential polls, revealed in detail his plans as president.
According to Radio Formula, Lopez Obrador from the PRD political party, said in the summit that he knew very well how to lift the country out from its current condition.
"In Mexico there are two serious problems that are intertwined and that feed each other. It's unemployment and crime," said Obrador. He also added that in order to resolve these problems there would have to be a clear division between criminals and authorities.
Candidates Josefina Vazquez Mota and Gabriel Quadri will be giving their address this afternoon.
There were reports from various Mexican media agencies that upon Peña Nieto's arrival to the summit, various university students rose to protest against him shouting slogans and flashing signboards.
Enrique Peña Nieto is at the center of various protests in Mexico with Mexican nationals denunciating the alleged favoritism he receives from TV broadcasters and channels.
Mexico's general elections will take place on July 1. Current president Felipe Calderón of the PAN party will step down from office at the end of 2012.
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