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More than 89 million voters will go to the polls this Sunday (1st) for legislative elections in Mexico. In conflict, there are the positions of president, senators, MPs and more than 2,700 local posts, such as governors and mayors, among others.
For the presidency, left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City who lost the presidential race twice, is leading the elections.
When elected, Lopez Obrador will become Mexico's first left-wing president for decades, breaking the control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). and their conservative opponents.
According to a poll released last Wednesday, 64-year-old López Obrador has a 24-point lead over his closest opponent in the presidential race, conservative Ricardo Anaya, a candidate for a coalition formed by the opposition party. national right-wing action (PAN) and by the party of the left democratic revolution (PRD).
Obrador, known by the acronym of his initials AMLO and competing for an alliance of his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) with two other parties, appears with 51% of voting intentions, while Anaya has 27 %. the presidential candidate Jose Antonio Meade, a PRI candidate with 19% of the vote, and Jaime Rodriguez, with 3%, an independent candidate known as "El Bronco", who was accused of illegally raising campaign funds , who denies.
Mexican presidential candidates pose for a photo after a debate in Merida (Photo: National Electoral Institute / Distributed document via Reuters) [/ b]
In Mexico, there is no second round. The result should be known at dawn on Monday.
Ending Corruption and Other Promises
López Obrador is a fervent critic of the ruling elite who promises to eradicate corruption in the country and pacify the country that has been tormented by violence .
Combining electoral promises with a panorama of the political history of Mexico, López Obrador promised at the end of the campaign a "radical" government that will end the privileges, eradicate impunity and fulfill the country of "moral authority".
"The country will be clean," said López Obrador at Estadio Azteca, Mexico's largest football stadium, with nearly 87,000 seats. "The main problem in Mexico is corruption, the main cause of economic inequality, corruption has unleashed insecurity," said the candidate to applause.
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"Mexico has been an economic failure over the last four decades … Real wages are lower than what they were in 1980, poverty is worse than it was 25 years ago. " If Lopez Obrador can make progress in these areas the fronts will be a significant improvement, "said France Pise, Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Political Research (CEPR) in Washington, at the agency's press France Agence France-Presse.
His economic team told investors that he was not a radical leftist and that he would fight to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) , a group also formed by the United States and Canada and that US President Donald Trump has threatened protectionist measures.
Carlos Urzua, chosen by López Obrador to head the finance ministry when he wins the elections, said he has met more than 65 investment funds, telling them that the candidate's Is committed to giving the central bank autonomy, a free currency fluctuation, free trade and control of expenses.
Enrique Pieña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who ruled uninterruptedly from 1929 to 2000, leaves the country with weakened public confidence. Two in 10 Mexicans approve of their management (21%), but 69% do not like their performance, according to Mitofsky Consulting's latest badessment, released in February. The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, during a speech in Mexico City (Photo: Mexico Presidency / Document distributed via Reuters) The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, during a speech in Mexico City (Photo: Presidency of Mexico / Document via Reuters) "src =" data: image / jpeg; base64, / 9j / 4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD / 2wBDAAMCAgMCAgMDAwMEAwMEBQgFBQQEBQoHBwYIDAoMDAsKCwsNDhIQDQ4RDgsLEBYQERMUFRUVDA8XGBYUGBIUFRT / 2wBDAQMEBAUEBQkFBQkUDQsNFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBQUFBT / wgARCAAQABkDASIAAhEBAxEB / 8QAFwAAAwEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAUGB EABYBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMCBP // / // aAAwDAQACEAMQAAABzZtGz5MSubWee EAB0QAAICAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEAgUAAQYSFBb / 2gAIAQEAAQUCGR46wWmF07Fgjp / JrF7Lrx7b5pCDKDDP0thn / 8QAGREAAwADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAiNB / 9oACAEDAQE / ActaV6Sn / 8QAGREBAAIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgABAxES / 9oACAECAQE / ATj73ErE / 8QAJRAAAgEEAQEJAAAAAAAAAAAAAQIDABITMREEFCEzQVGRktHx / 9oACAEBAAY / AuomWVmVJEUSsBWXtsniY3xotGSZzJJq41s / GpoRFc 0xA + + + TnKdDVSAnudw549R LkbUXeX3W196 / 8QAI BABAAIBAgcAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREhADGhEEFRYXGB8f / aAAgBAQABPyFT01aStbmJoyTSRTBEa ch1oY2xRn0mTGKloFgDrJhD + / the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto YYjZZdXo2LreUL3Vw5 / 9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABCXv // EABwRAQABBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAESExQWGBsf / aAAgBAwEBPxAKgOmLX4fYDFp1 Wf / EABoRAQEAAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAHGBsdH / 2gAIAQIBAT8QaSyeaMmEvIdmf // EAB4QAQEAAgICAwAAAAAAAAAAAAERITEAQRBRYZHx / 9oACAEBAAE / ECA2rcjq3eyzGrmp2azUIFbFae5I8T3wYE3AfEx4pglbEXKt21dDO8TOehLCz1A / XGcNDZGJ0IRwpJgefj + f / 9k = "/> Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, during a speech in Mexico City (Photo: Mexico Presidence / Handout via Reuters)
(not exempt from controversy) and various corruption scandals and allegations of human rights violations.
The first 20 months of his administration were marked by the approval of a large-scale reform that goes through almost everything from work to taxation.
Two were emblematic: the energy, which opened the sector to private initiative, and education, through which all public sector teachers undergo tests, despite the continual protests union teachers, who in some cases became violent.
The national anti-corruption system was also created, with which, in theory, there would be elements requiring greater transparency of the government. However, civil organizations have denounced a lack of political will to provide resources and independence.
Amid the militarized war against drug traffickers, two episodes marked the Peña Nieto administration in the security arena: the case of Ayotzinapa, where a group of 43 students disappeared after being attacked by thugs and policemen. of the National Human Rights Commission that 15 deaths found in June 2014 in central Mexico were extrajudicially executed by the military.
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The parents & Missing students demonstrate in Mexico City (Photo: Eduardo Verdugo / AP)
According to Sergio Aguayo, a researcher of the famous Colégio de México, heard by AFP, "there is a rare consensus in Mexico on the fact that the policy of Enr that Peña Nieto to control the insecurity was a failure. "
Mexico has ended its election campaign as the" most violent "record of recent years, according to a report by Etellekt, and since September, the date of the beginning of the pre-campaign, 124 political figures have been killed, including 29 pre-candidates and 18 candidates, according to the balance sheet of the company and local vehicles, quoted by AFP.
Several candidates consulted by the agency admitted to having campaigned in fear and some of them decided to engage security.
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