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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 22:25:44 GMT
Mexico is electing a new president, Senate and Chamber of Deputies on the 1st of July. We do not seem to have a thread for this. Controversial 64-year old veteran left nationalist maverick Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) from his own personlist party the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) has been leading since the start of the campaign with 38-year old lawyer Ricardo Anaya Cortés from the Conservative PAN as his only serious rival. They are both in alliance with other parties and "shell parties", most notably the PAN are allied with the broad tent centre-left/left nationalist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the party AMLO represented in both his previous presidential campaigns, but left in 2012 to found MORENA two years later. The traditional "party of power" PRI are represented by a bland technocrat nobody likes and the "cowboy governor" of Nuevo León, known as El Bronco, is running to boost his already seriously inflated ego. There is no run-off, which benefits AMLO.   |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 24, 2018 8:15:21 GMT
What an absolute shower!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 11:37:35 GMT
It would have to be PAN for me. MORENA is too far left and the PRI is a typically corrupt, authoritarian party of power.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 9:04:34 GMT
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Post by Philip Davies on Jun 28, 2018 14:11:45 GMT
Unless the polls are completely wrong AMLO will comfortably win. Neither of the other two main candidates have established themselves as the challenger.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 30, 2018 21:45:17 GMT
For 30 years Mexico has been Ireland: The "natural" party of governing (FF, PRI) now and again interrupted by short-living RightLeft-coalitions (FG&LAB, PAN&PRD).
Ironically AMLO (the exDirector of PRI's centre for indigenous affairs) will - by destroying PRI - restore old PRI-Mexico: A nationalistic&socialistic RulingParty challenged (without much success) by a rightliberal BusinessParty (either PAN or PRI, probably PAN).
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 2, 2018 2:33:24 GMT
0.5% counted:
47% AMLO
27% Anaya
17% Meade
Anaya stronger than polled, Meade weaker.
If this continues in this way, PRI will be in a very difficult situation.
Most governorships will be swept by MORENA, of course; PAN has low chances in Puebla and Veracruz (against MORENA), better ones in Yucatan (against PRI).
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Post by mboy on Jul 2, 2018 7:22:37 GMT
Seems he's a friend of Corbyn. Is he another Chavez then?
His policy of winding down the disastrous War on Drugs would help, at least.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 2, 2018 7:56:03 GMT
Seems he's a friend of Corbyn. Is he another Chavez then? His policy of winding down the disastrous War on Drugs works help, at least. Interestingly, the Graun piece suggests he won't want to deal much with Venezuela or Nicaragua. Is he a bit of a Chevenement type, I wonder? |
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 2, 2018 11:18:08 GMT
Whatever he is, he is exactly what the Mexican political and business elite deserve.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 2, 2018 12:11:40 GMT
Is he a bit of a Chevenement type, I wonder? Chevenement came to my mind, too. A recycled PRI-caudillo, combining nationalism/law&order with socialism. His strongest support can be found among students though. |
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Post by mboy on Jul 2, 2018 12:24:59 GMT
Is he a bit of a Chevenement type, I wonder? Chevenement came to my mind, too. A recycled PRI-caudillo, combining nationalism/law&order with socialism. His strongest support can be found among students though. Students like Left-wing populism? Surely shome mishtake?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 12:41:39 GMT
Chevenement came to my mind, too. A recycled PRI-caudillo, combining nationalism/law&order with socialism. His strongest support can be found among students though. Students like Left-wing populism? Surely shome mishtake? for a long time I was the only left wing student all my friends were Lib Dems |
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Post by syorkssocialist on Jul 2, 2018 13:14:12 GMT
Students like Left-wing populism? Surely shome mishtake? for a long time I was the only left wing student all my friends were Lib Dems Most students I know IRL still have very little interest in politics but the few that do are Tories and Lib Dems. |
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Jul 2, 2018 15:45:40 GMT
for a long time I was the only left wing student all my friends were Lib Dems Most students I know IRL still have very little interest in politics but the few that do are Tories and Lib Dems. During my first year of uni a couple of my neighbours in the halls were vocal Conservative supporters, which of course led to quite a bit of mutual (but friendly) ribbing during the 2010 general election period. |
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Post by John Chanin on Jul 2, 2018 16:20:18 GMT
We will watch with interest whether AMLO is all mouth, like most political leaders, or whether he actually lives up to his speeches, and does something useful, like Lula.
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Post by mboy on Jul 2, 2018 16:29:12 GMT
We will watch with interest whether AMLO is all mouth, like most political leaders, or whether he actually lives up to his speeches, and does something useful, like Lula. What, goes to jail? |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 2, 2018 20:24:44 GMT
Chevenement came to my mind, too. A recycled PRI-caudillo, combining nationalism/law&order with socialism. His strongest support can be found among students though. Students like Left-wing populism? Surely shome mishtake? Striking is, that those students support someone, who is sometimes called "Mexico's Trump" (a NickName, which is certainly not very fitting). |
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Post by spqr on Jul 2, 2018 20:33:40 GMT
Students like Left-wing populism? Surely shome mishtake? for a long time I was the only left wing student all my friends were Lib Dems I was a student at the fag-end of the noughties as well. Those were the days. |
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