- Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide victory on Sunday night.
- The 64-year-old populist inherits a country plagued with official corruption and violence, and a population increasing disillusioned with the political status quo.
- He campaigned on a platform of ending corruption and poverty and has vowed not to live in Mexico’s ornate presidential palace and sell the official jet.
- López Obrador, also known as AMLO, has also described Donald Trump as “erratic and arrogant,” but vowed to get along with the US president.
- Scroll down to learn more about Mexico’s new president.
This is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as “AMLO.” The 64-year-old emerged as the country’s president on Sunday night with around 53% of the vote.
He grew in a middle-class family in Tabasco state, the son of a petroleum merchant during Mexico’s oil boom. His friends at the time thought he too would become a businessman, but he chose to become a political activist and a human rights lawyer fighting against big oil companies in his 20s instead.
On December 1, he will take over from Enrique Peña Nieto, who leaves the presidency with a mere 17% approval rating, and who clashed with Donald Trump over trade and the proposed US-Mexico border wall.
Mexico presidents are limited to one six-year term, called a sexenio, so Peña Nieto did not run against López Obrador this year.
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