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Encouraged by his strong numbers, Lopez Obrador, 64, has been trying to cultivate an aura of inevitability around his campaign.
Anaya will run in a landmark alliance with the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
“I’m not running for president of Mexico to keep on doing the same thing. … I want to be president so I can make sure the dramatic change that our country needs is achieved,” Anaya said after accepting his party’s nod.
“The big question in this kind of election is what kind of change we want, change looking toward the future or trapped in the past,” he stressed.
Meade tried to sound upbeat as he accepted the PRI’s nomination at its national convention — though two recent polls have him falling farther behind.
“We can win!” said the former finance minister, who is highly respected in business circles but is struggling under the baggage of the PRI — which has been hit by a string of corruption scandals that have landed seven of its ex-governors in jail.
“I’m doing it for Mexico and asking all of you to do it for Mexico as well,” he said.
Officially, the campaign does not open until March 30, but months of “pre-campaigning” have already laid bare Mexico’s divisions.
“This election is about those people who are desperate for change in Mexico… and are willing to try anything different, and those people who are genuinely worried about what change will bring,” said Duncan Wood, director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute in Washington.
The next president will inherit a lackluster economy, a political system rotting with corruption and a messy war on Mexico’s powerful drug cartels that has left a trail of dead and missing in its wake.
Not to mention there’s also difficult ties with the administration of US President Donald Trump, whose attacks on Mexico have put the future of the country’s most crucial trade relationship in doubt.
