LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 03 March 2017

Mexico’s presidential elections in 2018 will feature at least one independent candidate. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the early frontrunner and leader of the radical left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), will no longer be the sole anti-system candidate. Emilio Álvarez Icaza, a prominent human-rights activist, declared his presidential candidacy while presenting a new political movement called Ahora on 26 February.

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