Leftist Lopez Obrador wins Mexico presidential election: exit polls

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MEXICO CITY, July 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Anti-establishment leftist Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador won Mexico’s presidential election Sunday by a large
margin, according to exit polls, in a landmark break with the parties that
have governed for nearly a century.

Three polling firms gave the former Mexico City mayor the win. Newspaper El
Financiero’s exit poll gave him 49 percent of the vote to 27 percent for
conservative Ricardo Anaya and 18 percent for ruling-party candidate Jose
Antonio Meade. Polling firms Mitofsky and the Strategic Communications
Cabinet announced broadly similar results in their own exit polls. All had
Lopez Obrador winning more than 40 percent of the vote in the single-round
race, well ahead of his rivals.