Gunmen killed a candidate for mayor from President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party on Thursday, and the party's leader said the victim and other candidates had received threats.
PAN leader Cesar Nava said candidate Jose Mario Guajardo had been "asked via threats to abandon his candidacy," and said his party would ask federal authorities to provide protection for some candidates.
"Like him, we have other candidates ... who we now know have also been threatened," Nava said.
Calderon's office said in a press statement that his administration "condemns the cowardly assassination" and "repeats …
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