The left leads the presidential race in Mexico

In his third candidacy for the post, López Obrador is hoping for a better income distribution. Populist profile, he is feared by the elite and compared by some to the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez Everyone gave his best at the end of the Mexican election campaign: 90 000 celebrated in Mexico City polls chief, the former mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, from the National Renewal Movement (Morena). López Obrador announced severe sanctions for corrupt politicians and an increase in zero tax, as well as an internal market-oriented economic policy

we are the only option for the future. "In Coahuila, in the north of the country, José Antonio Meade of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has promised more security, calling Lopez Obrador" an authoritarian threat. "

The Countdown to the Presidential Election started on Sunday 06. With López Obrador, for the first time, a candidate feared by the elite can access the presidential palace, comparing him to the Venezuelan left-wing populist Hugo Chávez.This is the third time that the 64-year-old politician runs for election, this time 10 to 18 percentage points ahead of Ricardo Anaya, second in polls.

This is partly due to poor performance previous governments, the PAN and the PRI, as well as the emotional connection that the charismatic candidate can build with his constituents.The fact that he is not afraid to break with the parties (in 1988, with the PRI and in 2012, with the left wing party e the Democratic Revolution), when they contradict his convictions, turns him into an alternative to the system, an advantage in the moment when he dominates "We need change: politicians are only filling their pockets, inciting the war against drugs and people are suffering, "said 27-year-old student David Perez, who will give his vote to Obrador. But Tania González, who votes for the first time, thinks differently: "López Obrador will ruin the economy, and then it will be worse for everyone, so I prefer Anaya, who is younger and has a more modern program. "

Entrepreneurial favorite Ricardo Anaya has conducted an aggressive and costly campaign, has a well-structured program and has exposed in debates the platitudes of López Obrador – just as a good example is enough to fight corruption.

No However, the ambitious 39-year-old politician failed to take the lead in polls. His candidacy was hampered by money laundering charges, his image of yuppie and unscrupulous and power-hungry man, in addition to internal disputes within his coalition. However his campaign team is still waiting for a miracle at the last minute – and 20% of the undecided.

The third in the polls is Jose Antonio Meade. Although he is perceived as a full-fledged technocrat, the rival bidder has been weakened by corruption scandals in the last years of the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, as well as by the rise in crime and violence rates and unpopular tax increases.

charisma, and the PRI base was not very happy about the appointment of a non-partisan politician to competition. All this can lead the PRI to get the worst result in its history. The mandate of Peña Nieto (2012-2018), initiated as the triumphant return of the PRI to power, may become, in a historical perspective, a hiatus in the path of decadence of the former state party .

Founded in 2012 by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the National Renewal Movement (Morena), can become the most powerful bench of Congress. However, with curious alliances, including ultraconservative evangelicals and former PAN and PRI members to former communists and militia representatives.

Hard to predict where this will end. Obrador is currently the league that overcomes all the differences and in which Mexicans project their hope that the prosperity cake will be spread more equitably, as Mexico has grown about 2% per year over the last 12 years.

Country has become the world's fourth largest car exporter. But at the same time, the murder rate has doubled, high inflation of 4.5% per year has brought down real wages and the poverty rate has remained at 36%, while education and health have progressed too slowly to support the growing needs of the new middle clbad.

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