Tag: Morena

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Mexican FM to resign, wants to focus on presidential bid

  

  Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Tuesday announced that he would be resigning from his job to dedicate himself to the 2024 presidential campaign on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ebrard, 63, said that he will formally leave his post on June 12.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2021 - 07:15 UTC

  AMLO loses legislative majority in Mexican Lower House

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) centre-left ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) which lost the qualified majority in the Lower House after Sunday's elections.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2021 - 07:23 UTC

  The Economist calls Mexican president “a false messiah” and appeals to vote against him next Sunday

  

  On Sunday next week, Mexicans will be electing hundreds of legislators and other state and local officials with the election attracting the attention of the latest edition of The Economist, which describes president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his policies as dangerous populism. The leading piece of The Economist has been met with outrage and ridicule in Mexico since the magazine insists Mexicans should absolutely not vote for Morena, the party of the incumbent president.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Mexican president faces corruption allegations of his inner circle

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged authorities on Monday to look into a report accusing a top aide of financial impropriety, while calling it part of a media campaign aimed at bringing his administration into disrepute.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Lopez Obrador popularity stands solid: wins in two state elections

  

  Mexico's president is expected to score comfortable wins at Sunday's state elections in the first test of his popularity since taking office, with exit polls showing his party taking both governorships up for grabs. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party was tipped for victory in the central state of Puebla and the northern state of Baja California, despite a weak economy, rampant violence and troubled relations with his US counterpart Donald Trump.

• Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 10:11 UTC

  López Obrador closes his campaign with an anticipated victory

  

  The candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed his electoral campaign last Wednesday ahead the presidential elections on Sunday filling the largest stadium in the world on a working day. The only leftist candidate steals public attention in Mexico and leads the polls with an anti-system and reforming discourse.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Lopez Obrador closer to the Mexican presidency: 22 percentage points ahead of his closest rival

  

  Mexico’s frontrunner has just clocked a new milestone in his race toward the presidency, distancing himself from his rivals by 22 percentage points in a new poll ahead of the July 1 election.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:30 UTC

  Mexican political turmoil: opposition leader Lopez Obrador decides to create his party

  

  Mexican opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who twice contested second-place losses in presidential elections, said he would leave his coalition, a move that threatens to create a rift among leftists in Congress.