Mexico votes with president's 'transformation' at stake

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Mexicans vote Sunday in elections seen as pivotal to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's promised 'transformation' of a country shaken by the ...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador enjoys public approval ratings above 60 percent AFP/PEDRO PARDOMEXICO CITY: Mexicans voted on Sunday in legislative elections seen as a referendum on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's more than two years in office, overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and cartel-related violence.

Lopez Obrador was elected in 2018 for a term of six years, vowing to overhaul Mexico's"neoliberal" economic model, root out corruption and end profligacy by a privileged elite. Despite more than a quarter of a million coronavirus deaths - one of the world's highest tolls - the 67-year-old president continues to enjoy public approval ratings above 60 per cent.

His supporters say he is their first president to put the interests of the Mexican majority, many of whom live in poverty, before those of the wealthy elite. The main opposition parties - the centrist PRI, the conservative PAN and the left-wing PRD - remain weakened by Lopez Obrador's 2018 landslide victory.

 

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