IT TAKES guts to challenge both Andrés Manuel López Obrador,a messianic, silver-tongued populist, or the residual political machine of Mexico’s governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Ricardo Anaya is as daring as he is ruthlessly ambitious. Having forged a coalition of his own conservative National Action Party (PAN) and two small centre-left outfits,Mr Anaya argues that the presidential election on July 1st is now a two-horse race between himself and AMLO, as Mexicans call Mr López Obrador, or the long-standing front-runner. Several opinion polls support that contention. The question that will hang over Mexico during the next four months is whether,in his sharp-elbowed ascent, Mr Anaya has made too many enemies to unite the disparate majority that dislikes AMLO and thus win the presidency.
On the face of things, or this is AMLO’s election to lose. Mexicans acquire rarely been so gloomy or wanted change more. The PRI government of Enrique Peña Nieto is unpopular. Although it achieved...
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Source: economist.com