Monday, January 23, 2006

A Leftist President for Mexico??

Recent polls seem to suggest that Mexico could follow in the footsteps of other Latin American countries who have elected leftist presidents in recent years. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist frontrunner, was shown in three recent opinion polls to have a clear lead over his two main opponents, Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, and Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI (which ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century). With the July 2nd election creeping closer, candidates have broken a month long truce to begin a rough election campaign.

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