{"id":8072,"date":"2018-07-02T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2018-07-02T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:30:03","slug":"lopez-obrador-wins-sweeping-mandate-in-mexican-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=8072","title":{"rendered":"L\u00f3pez Obrador wins sweeping mandate in Mexican presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"KhhTMm\">Mexico\u2019s leftist candidate Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador is projected to win the country\u2019s presidential election by a landslide. But given the massive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/6\/30\/17514176\/mexico-2018-president-election-lopez-obrador\">wave of violence<\/a>\u00a0that continues to plague Mexico, he will face significant obstacles to deliver on his campaign promises to take on the country\u2019s widespread corruption problems.<\/p>\n<p id=\"L2XOap\">L\u00f3pez Obrador, 64, is expected to win the election with around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/mexicans-head-to-polls-to-choose-a-new-president\/2018\/07\/01\/517e8670-7a2a-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_story.html?utm_term=.3bc3ac224e19\">53 percent of the vote<\/a>, according to exit polls and a \u201cquick count\u201d of the ballots. Before the election, he had already been leading the polls ahead of his three rivals for months. And all three of his rivals have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-mexico-election-20180630-story.html\">already conceded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b7DthU\">\u201cI call on all Mexicans to reconciliation, and to put above their personal interests, however legitimate, the greater interest, the general interest,\u201d L\u00f3pez Obrador said during his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/01\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador.html\">acceptance speech<\/a>\u00a0Sunday night, according to the New York Times. \u201cThe state will cease to be a committee at the service of a minority and will represent all Mexicans, rich and poor, those who live in the country and in the city, migrants, believers and nonbelievers, to people of all philosophies and sexual preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"AL2hrd\">Mexican voters also elected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/6\/30\/17514176\/mexico-2018-president-election-lopez-obrador\">over 3,400 political seats<\/a>\u00a0at the local, state, and federal level. They voted for a new national Congress, including 128 Senate seats and 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico\u2019s lower house.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9KFyox\">L\u00f3pez Obrador, who is commonly referred to by his initials AMLO, leads the newly formed Morena party; he\u2019s promised to enact policies to address inequality and the recent spike in violence in the country. Among other things, he\u2019s promised to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/02\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-lopez-obrador.html\">increase spending<\/a>\u00a0on social programs to expand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mexico-election\/mexicos-presidential-front-runner-vows-more-welfare-formalizes-bid-idUSKBN1E62RQ\">pensions for the elderly<\/a>\u00a0and grants for students.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ZBlkPq\">If his party and its coalition partners win a majority in Congress, he could wield even more power.<\/p>\n<p id=\"PKK6Bc\">Given his nationalist position, it\u2019s uncertain how he\u2019ll affect the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/6\/30\/17514176\/mexico-2018-president-election-lopez-obrador\">potential renegotiation<\/a>\u00a0of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which President Donald Trump has been critical of recently. That basically means that if Trump ceases NAFTA, L\u00f3pez Obrador\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/6\/30\/17514176\/mexico-2018-president-election-lopez-obrador\">may not fight<\/a>\u00a0to keep the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s leftist candidate Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}