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For the first time in its history, Mexico will have a left-wing president. The other two candidates acknowledged the defeat and post-election polls allowed the 64-year-old politician, who had already tried to become president twice.
After the elections on Sunday, July 1, The politician of the left movement National Regeneration Movement (Morena) is becoming the man who will lead the future of Mexico for the next six years. AMLO surpbaded its main competitors by more than 20 points in the polls, the official Jose Antonio Meade, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Ricardo Anaya, the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
urn indicates that AMLO would have reached at least 43% of the vote, well above its two opponents. Although the National Electoral Institute (INE) has explained that the consolidated results will be known on Monday, July 2, the trend has indicated that there would be no big surprises. In fact, Anaya and Meade acknowledged their defeat on Sunday night and wished the best candidate the best of luck. Thus, the man of 64, who in his youth sold shoes, will be the first president of the country's open left
This is the first time in Mexico (since the electoral preferences have began to be measured, in 1994) that a candidate arrived on election day with such an advantage in the polls. Analysts agreed that Mexicans voted motivated by anger and dissatisfaction with the system, represented mainly by the traditional parties and the disputed management of outgoing president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
"While there is a polarization and different discourses coexist about what is at stake, these elections are mainly characterized by a uniform idea that things can not continue like this," says the journalist Neldy San Martín, from the daily El Financiero Bloomberg in El Espectador
. , Peña Nieto's leadership, with very low levels of approval and agitation by corruption scandals, has favored López Obrador, who is the only candidate whose speech marks a break with the current situation. "He talks about ending the waste, with the privileges in the government and also a change in the security strategy," says the reporter.
In his third consecutive attempt to reach the presidency, López Obrador has been able to capitalize on Suffering Mexican society. The leftist candidate has played in the past in two of the traditional parties of his country, but for this election, he has moved away from them and founded his own party: the Movement for National Regeneration (Brunette ). Once the forecasts are over, these elections will mark a turning point in the Mexican and Latin American political map.
"Some compare this tower with a tremor; others consider it is a structural change in Mexican politics. The truth is that the system of established parties has been shaken by the advancement of the Morena movement, "said Duncan Wood, director of the Mexico Institute at Woodrow Wilson Center, AFP. [19659003] López Obrador called his movement "the fourth transformation of Mexico" and is compared with the heroes of national history such as Benito Juárez (1806-1876), key figure in the construction of the Republic in the nineteenth century. His humble origins have affected a large part of the Mexican population, who see in AMLO a politician with whom he could identify.
Formed in the ranks of the PRI, in the decade of the 60's and 70's, AMLO was always more inclined towards the left-wing party movement and for this reason he was accused of "spreading socialist ideas" in his interior.In the mid-1980s he resigned from the government, where he headed the Center for Political, Economic Studies s and Social Committee of the PRI State, ensuring that "the party had no recourse".
In 1988 he witnessed the election fraud that gave the presidency of Mexico to the PRI candidate, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who defeated Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas, the first left-wing politician who faced the government party and then all- powerful.
After that, López Obrador was one of the founders of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), through which he obtained the government of his native state, Tabasco, and later the national presidency of the movement , from which he promoted his last failed presidential campaigns.
In 2006, under the flags of the PRD, he came in second place, after PAN candidate Felipe Calderón, in the most disputed election in the history of Mexico. At that time, López Obrador did not recognize the results because he lost only 243,934 votes, which corresponds to 0.62% of the total votes.
In 2012, things were very different. The leftist candidate was still second, but this time very far from the winner, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the PRI, who took over the presidency for the party that ruled Mexico for more than 71 years. At that time, AMLO again denounced a possible electoral fraud, which was rejected because of the long difference of more than four million votes between the two candidates.
Barring a huge surprise, López Obrador's victory is historic. The challenges for AMLO will be huge: in addition to fighting corruption and fighting against insecurity, it must keep its promise to put in its place the American President Donald Trump, who threatens to build a wall on the Mexican border and to break the free trade agreement. the trade that unites the two countries.
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