{"id":168748,"date":"2018-07-02T04:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168748"},"modified":"2018-07-02T04:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:40:52","slug":"mexico-gives-leftist-lopez-obrador-big-presidential-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/mexico-gives-leftist-lopez-obrador-big-presidential-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico gives leftist Lopez Obrador big presidential win"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168746\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2970386265_26b63eb120_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168746\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2970386265_26b63eb120_b.jpg\" alt=\"An official quick count from electoral authorities late Sunday forecasts that Lopez Obrador would win with between 53 per cent and 53.8 per cent of the votes, a remarkable margin not seen in the country for many years. (Photo: Eneas De Troya\/Flickr\/CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2970386265_26b63eb120_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2970386265_26b63eb120_b-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2970386265_26b63eb120_b-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An official quick count from electoral authorities late Sunday forecasts that Lopez Obrador would win with between 53 per cent and 53.8 per cent of the votes, a remarkable margin not seen in the country for many years. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eneas\/\">Eneas De Troya<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eneas\/2970386265\/in\/photolist-5wu1mi-cuZKpS-cuZKEb-cuZMBS-dJSZgn-cuZLVQ-cuZLfb-519JRW-cjzCw1-cn71bo-cn7F87-avkcNU-cn6NqL-cn6Sj3-cn7Bnh-c2CZRC-cn7cb5-cuZMRN-n5y1C-cuZLn9-c7bTUw-cuZKJ5-gqXF1X-cuZMw3-Mo57-bN9mCD-Mo6z-SyL3-5LSeaM-5LS55R-bN9iAP-5LSbXP-xjPfP-cuZM9Q-bzeF4u-bR5ZVn-cuZL17-iWQqG-4ZQF7N-cdYT8G-cuZLzb-cuZMZ5-bAwvoQ-bSsYFF-iXEvE-c7qkAL-c2CZob-cn8tYf-cuZKXo-5LWguG\">Flickr<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014 Angry and frustrated over corruption and violence, Mexican voters have delivered a tidal wave presidential election victory to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, giving him a broad mandate to upend the political establishment and govern for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>An official quick count from electoral authorities late Sunday forecasts that Lopez Obrador would win with between 53 per cent and 53.8 per cent of the votes, a remarkable margin not seen in the country for many years. Early Monday, with about 20 per cent of the votes counted, Lopez Obrador&#8217;s advantage was close to the quick count&#8217;s statistical sample.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent exit poll predicts his party allies are poised to score big victories in congressional races, possibly winning absolute majorities in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014 Angry and frustrated over corruption and violence, Mexican voters have delivered a tidal wave presidential election victory to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":168746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[27886,379,52499],"class_list":["post-168748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador","tag-mexico","tag-presidential-win","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}