Mexico agriculture minister steps down to join Meade campaign


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  • Saturday, 17 Mar 2018

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Agriculture Secretary Jose Calzada looks on during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City, Mexico February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican Agriculture Minister Jose Calzada said on Friday he had stepped down to join the presidential campaign of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Jose Antonio Meade.

"We're off with our friend (Jose Antonio Meade) on his campaign," Calzada said on Twitter not long after the Mexican presidency had announced he had resigned from his post.

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