Polls 2018
\nDNA
\nMEXICO CITY
\nMexicans vote for a new president today in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with Donald Trump\u2019s United States.
\nFormer Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has led opinion polls throughout the campaign and would be the first leftist to take the presidency in decades in Mexico if he ousts the ruling centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
\nRunner-up in the 2012 and 2006 elections, Lopez Obrador pitches himself as the only man capable of cleaning up a political class whose credibility has been ground down by persistent graft, soaring crime levels and years of sub-par economic growth.
\n\u201cThe new president of Mexico will have moral and political authority to demand everyone behaves with integrity and make honesty a priority as a way of life,\u201d Lopez Obrador said in his campaign finale in a soccer stadium in the capital on Wednesday.
\nThe law bars current President Enrique Pena Nieto from seeking re-election. But his popularity crumbled as his name became tainted by investigations into alleged conflicts-of-interest and embezzlement scandals engulfing top PRI officials.
\nCampaigning relentlessly around Mexico for the past 13 years, Lopez Obrador has watched political careers rise and fall as established parties were consumed by the country\u2019s social and economic problems and the responsibility of power.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s hope Mexico changes,\u201d said Oswaldo Angeles, 20, a Lopez Obrador supporter from Atlacomulco, a longstanding PRI bastion some 90 kilometres from Mexico City and hometown of Pena Nieto. \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t know if we\u2019re coming or going.\u201d
\nLopez Obrador, 64, has been vague on policy details. Seeking to harness support from economic nationalists, leftist liberals and social conservatives, he vows to reduce inequality, improve pay and welfare spending, as well as run a tight budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Polls 2018 DNA MEXICO CITY Mexicans vote for a new president today in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with Donald Trump\u2019s United States. Former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has led opinion polls throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n