Severe punishment and Mexico voted against its radical ambitions: the international press honors AMLO for the electoral results

The elections in Mexico marked a before and after in the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). During the election campaign, the international press played an important role, because his constant criticism of the executive has declined more than once in public opinion.

Now after the elections are over. Several of the world’s most important newspapers have reported on the ups and downs the government has seen through voting. One of the most radical is that published by the The Wall Street Journal, where you could read that the voters “threw a severe retribution” on the coalition of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

On June 6, the ruling party lost two-thirds of the Chamber of Deputies, which implies a weakening of López Obrador and his “ambitions for a radical ‘fourth transformation’ in Mexico”.

From this point of view, the president López Obrador trusted his good approval for the elections, he would review “his mismanagement of Covid-19 and an economy that has not grown for two years”.

However, the WSJ assured that the elections revealed that “the political class has often disappointed them, but Sunday’s vote suggests they still prefer pluralism and democracy over a return to government of a strong man ”.

For its part, The Economist, The same newspaper that called the Mexican executive a “false messiah” reported that the elections were an exercise in which “The voters controlled the power of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”

Above all, the newspaper specializing in finance pointed out that the results “are a clear blow to the ambitions of the president”, which should now negotiate with other parties to pass laws.

This weakening, they assured, would come from the middle class, which would have supported López Obrador in 2018. “His promises to make Mexico richer, safer and less corrupt have not been kept”they wrote. “Sunday’s results will provide an additional drag on these efforts.”

the Washington Post, for his part, he also stressed that the mandatory negotiations that the President of Mexico must now conduct. Well, “although Morena was ready to add at least seven governorships across the country to her previous six, she seemed to be facing serious setbacks in influential Mexico City, which had been a key electoral base for the president ”.

Specialists consulted by the media have assured that López Obrador continues to be “a president of Teflon”, because there are still many Mexicans who do not blame him for the tragedies of the country.

The newspaper assured that the president has lost his charm. In the middle of his six-year term “the president did not prove he was the radical leftist that some of his adversaries feared. López Obrador significantly reduced bureaucracy, it has broadened the role of the armed forces and lobbied for a stronger government presence in the energy sector ”.

Thus ended the elections, although Morena did not manage to take everything as on other occasions, President López Obrador said he was “happy, happy, happy” with the results and assured that there was had a dirty campaign to try to bring it down. “They couldn’t,” he said in his morning lecture.

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