Stay or go? Mexicans vote on Amlo's performance in historic recall election
Source: The Guardian
Stay or go? Mexicans vote on Amlo’s performance in historic recall election
Despite Covid deaths and enduring drug violence, voters look poised to keep president in office in referendum he supports
Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City
Fri 8 Apr 2022 10.30 BST
Last modified on Fri 8 Apr 2022 16.33 BST
Maria de Lourdes loves her leader and is desperate for him to stay.
“He’s the best president we’ve had in 70 years,” the retiree enthused this week as she prepared to bombard her phone contacts with calls urging them to back him on Sunday, when Mexico goes to the polls.
Latin America’s second biggest economy is not holding a presidential election, however – the next one is not due until 2024. Rather, voters will be offered a straightforward question in Mexico’s first ever national recall election: should president Andrés Manuel López Obrador have his mandate revoked, or not?
Lourdes, a fervent “Obradista” who regularly posts pro-López Obrador memes on social networks, has no doubt which way she will vote in the ballot which, unusually, was championed by the president himself.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/mexico-amlo-recall-election-referendum