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    Mexico leftist opens up 22-point lead in presidency race

    Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has widened his lead in the race to win the July 1 presidential election, opening up a gap of 22 percentage points, a poll by newspaper Reforma showed on Wednesday.The April 12-15 voter poll showed Lopez Obrador winning 48 percent, a jump of six points from a February survey by Reforma. His nearest rival, Ricardo Anaya, who heads a right-left coalition, dropped by six points to 26 percent.
    Running third was Jose Antonio Meade, candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whose backing remained steady at 18 percent, the poll showed.
    The figures for the three stripped out the 19 percent of respondents who expressed no preference. The poll surveyed 1,200 voters and had a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
    A separate survey by polling firm Mitofsky published late on Wednesday also showed Lopez Obrador pulling further ahead.
    In that poll, Lopez Obrador garnered 31.9 percent support, up from 29.5 percent in a Mitofsky survey last month. Anaya trailed in second with 20.8 percent and Meade polled at 16.9 percent.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-le...030713447.html
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    A poll conducted by Mexican polling firm Consulta Mitofsky indicates that the coalition led by populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador could win a majority in both houses of Congress, La Politica Online reported May 24.

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    Now one presidential candidate in Mexico is hoping to win over voters with a novel response to the country's security crisis: amnesty for criminals.
    Justice not revenge

    The idea, first floated by leftist front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador in August 2016, is undeveloped and quite likely quixotic. López Obrador has yet to even indicate precisely what benefit the Mexican government would get in exchange for pardoning felons.
    Still, as a law professor who studies drug policy, I must give López Obrador some credit for originality. His three competitors have mostly frustrated voters this campaign season by suggesting the same tried-and-failed law enforcement-based strategies.
    López Obrador, founder and leader of Mexico's MORENA Party, is a rabble-rousing politician who delights in challenging the status quo. In this, his third presidential bid, he has on several occasions suggested that both members of organized crime groups and corrupt politicians could be pardoned for their crimes.
    When pressed for details on the amnesty plan, López Obrador has simply responded that "amnesty is not impunity" or that Mexico needs "justice," not "revenge."
    Former Supreme Court Justice Olga Sánchez Cordero, López Obrador's pick for secretary of the interior, has offered a few additional hints about the plan. She says that voters should think of amnesty not as a security policy but as a kind of transitional justice. It would be an instrument used to pacify Mexico.
    The opportunity would be time-limited. Criminals would lose their immunity after a specific date if they have not met certain conditions — though these conditions remain undefined. It would also exclude serious crimes such as torture, rape or homicide.


    Sound vague? That's because it is.
    López Obrador says that his amnesty idea is still in development, and that his team will work with religious organizations, Pope Francis, United Nations General Secretary António Guterres, Mexican civil society groups and human rights experts to develop "a plan to achieve peace for the country, with justice and dignity."


    It's unclear, for example, why drug traffickers would abandon their US$40 billion illicit industry — which supports around 500,000 jobs in Mexico — in exchange for a preemptive pardon from authorities.
    It is also difficult to reconcile López Obrador's vows for honest government with his proposal to pardon corruption, though he has committed to finishing all ongoing investigations into public officials accused of corruption.
    López Obrador claims to seek a new "moral constitution" for Mexico. He maintains that forgiveness is necessary to construct a "república amorosa" — "loving republic" — in which Mexicans "live under the principle that being good is the only way to be joyful."

    More at: http://www.businessinsider.com/mexic...18-5?r=UK&IR=T
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