With the presidential election and Cup match against Brazil, Mexico will live electrifying 24 hours | World

The next day, probably in the morning, will know who is the new president of the country – the favorite in the polls is leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But at dawn on Monday, Mexicans will have little time to worry about election results as they will have to focus on the confrontation of their selection, known as "El Tricolor" , with Brazil, for the eighth Cup.

According to a poll released Wednesday, López Obrador has 24 points ahead of his closest opponent in the Mexican presidential race, the conservative Ricardo Anaya.

The former mayor of Mexico City, who holds the presidency of the country for the third time, got 51% of the voting intentions, while Anaya, candidate for a coalition formed by the Party of Action Rightwing National Party (PAN) and Left Revolutionary Party (PRD), received 27% of the voting intentions.

In closing his campaign on Wednesday (27), López Obrador pledged to end corruption and pacify the country plagued by violence, in a comprehensive speech in a crowded stadium.

Criticism of the ruling elite, López Obrador may become Mexico's first left-wing president for decades, breaking the control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its conservative opponents.

Combining election promises with a panorama of Mexico 's political history, López Obrador promised a "radical" government that would end privileges, eradicate impunity and fill the country with violence. "moral authority".