Hillary Clinton will this weekend announce her candidacy for the Democratic Party ticket to the 2016 US presidential elections, according to several US media reports.
The former secretary of state will announce her candidacy on Sunday on video and social media sites, the New York Daily News reported on Thursday.
The portal Business Insider published similar reports without specifying whether the announcement would be made on Saturday or Sunday.
While Clinton's candidacy has been taken for granted in Democratic circles and the US press for several months, a formal announcement is still awaited from the former First Lady who ran against Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries.
The Daily News went even further, saying that Clinton would begin her campaign with a series of small events in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire, where the primaries to select presidential candidates usually precede those of other states.
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Clinton is favourite to become the Democratic candidate and as yet faces no serious challenge from any other party candidate.
Meanwhile, the situation is less clear in the Republican camp, with dozens of possible candidates of whom only Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have officially declared their candidacy.
