Cuautémc Cárdenas, a leader in Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party, will receive the prestigious Belisario Domínugez Medal of Honor in the coming days.
The award may improve his chances of winning the candidacy of his party for the presidential elections next year.
Cárdenas, who is considering running for the Mexican presidency in 2012, said his decision will be based on the competition he will face.
Cárdenas has said that if Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Marcelo Ebrad, both from his party, run for the party's candidacy, he will not run.
"I'm not going to go in to take the candidacy from the people who want it," he said to El Universal.
The Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor is given annually to one eminent Mexican who contributed most to the welfare of Mexico and mankind. It is named after Belisario Domínguez, who spoke against Victoriano Huerta's coup of the Mexican government in 1913. Domínguez was assassinated later that year.
President Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez established the award in 1953. It was first awarded in 1954 to Rosaura Zapata, who helped found the national education system in Mexico, and posthumously to Domínguez himself.
The medal is the highest award given by the Mexican government. It will undoubtedly boost Cárdenas' prestige among members of his party and the people of Mexico in general.
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