PRI picks former governor Beltrones as leader

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) said on Monday that it had selected Manlio Fabio Beltrones as its chairman-elect, a legislator widely seen as a possible PRI candidate for the country's 2018 presidential election.

Though Beltrones, who was also governor of Sonora state, has not officially said he would run for president, local media has speculated that he is one of the front-runners.