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Who is Andrés Manuel López Obrador?

Former mayor of Mexico City and left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidential election with 53% in 2018. In his campaign, he promised to rid Mexico of corruption and inequality, which he credited to previous administrations he called “>a mafia of power.”>_x000D_tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City’s main plaza to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s changes to the electoral law, which they say threaten democracy. Most marchers wore white and pink, the colors of the National Electoral Institute, as they yelled, “>Don’t touch my vote!”> In the same week, López Obrador insisted that he had documented a real-life elf, tweeting: “>Everything is mystical.“>