| Submit your comments on this article |
| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Mexico goes hard left: AMLO Wins Mexican Presidential Election |
| 2018-07-02 |
| [Breitbart] Mexico’s leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has won his presidential bid after the rest of the candidates backed out of the race. The early poll results showed the president-elect pulling more than 40 percent of the votes in the early voting results. The win by Lopez Obrador, also known as AMLO, is historic in nature since many in Mexico considered the election as a way of fighting back against the establishment. It is also the first time in recent history where rival candidates have conceded so early after the initial results were cast. Private polling companies initially had AMLO and the second placeholder as having a tight race. However, the early official results showed a clear leader. Soon after the early result began to be broadcast at 8 p.m., Jose Antonio Meade, the candidate for the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) acknowledged his defeat. He stated that exit polls favored AMLO and backed out of the race. Early poll results had Meade pulling 18.2 percent of the votes as per Mexico’s National Elections Institute (INE). |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 This guy will make Venezuela look like a Kindergarten graduation ceremony |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-07-02 15:37 |
| #10 Is it me or is there a whiff of Tony Soprano here? More likely the stench of Hillary Clinton.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-07-02 11:06 |
| #9 Just when you think Mexico can't get any more failed... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-07-02 10:46 |
| #8 Mexico has needed a revolution for some time. They are full of mineral wealth and hard workers and bad government. I don't think this guy will be any better but something needs to change. (1) A wall to prevent the waves of refugees likely if things go super-bad. (2) Slam employers that pays anyone below minimum wage. (3) Tax remittances. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-02 10:15 |
| #7 Soros have anything to say about this? Bring back the troops from Germany and put them on the border. Shoot any "coyotes" you find. Shoot any Mexican police that try to protect them. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-07-02 09:53 |
| #6 It is also the first time in recent history where rival candidates have conceded so early after the initial results were cast. Is it me or is there a whiff of Tony Soprano here? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-02 09:30 |
| #5 The press will wear out the word "unexpectedly" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-02 07:12 |
| #4 wall of lead Or as AMLO might say, a "frontera de balacera." |
| Posted by: Angeremp Bumble6748 2018-07-02 06:54 |
| #3 He's gonna do for Mexico what Chavez did for Venezuela. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-02 06:37 |
| #2 A wall of lead also works. |
| Posted by: Thravish White7222 2018-07-02 05:25 |
| #1 We'd better get very busy on that border wall. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-02 01:59 |